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COMITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does comity mean?
• COMITY (noun)
The noun COMITY has 1 sense:
1. a state or atmosphere of harmony or mutual civility and respect
Familiarity information: COMITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A state or atmosphere of harmony or mutual civility and respect
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("comity" is a kind of...):
concord; concordance; harmony (a harmonious state of things in general and of their properties (as of colors and sounds); congruity of parts with one another and with the whole)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "comity"):
comity of nations (courteous respect by one nation for the laws and institutions of another)
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