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CONGRUITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does congruity mean?
• CONGRUITY (noun)
The noun CONGRUITY has 1 sense:
1. the quality of agreeing; being suitable and appropriate
Familiarity information: CONGRUITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of agreeing; being suitable and appropriate
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
congruence; congruity; congruousness
Hypernyms ("congruity" is a kind of...):
harmoniousness; harmony (compatibility in opinion and action)
Antonym:
incongruity (the quality of disagreeing; being unsuitable and inappropriate)
Derivation:
congruous (suitable or appropriate together)
congruous (corresponding in character or kind)
Context examples
The reader may be disposed to wonder how I could prevail on myself to give so free a representation of my own species, among a race of mortals who are already too apt to conceive the vilest opinion of humankind, from that entire congruity between me and their Yahoos.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
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