Meaning of CONGENIALITY
Pronunciation: | | kun`jeenee'alitee
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- [n] a congenial disposition
- [n] compatibility between persons
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| Synonyms: | | congenialness |
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| Antonyms: | | uncongeniality | |
| See Also: | | compatibility, friendliness | |
Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| Definition: | | \Con*ge`ni*al"i*ty\ (? or ?; 106), n.
The state or quality of being congenial; natural affinity;
adaptation; suitableness. --Sir J. Reynolds.
If congeniality of tastes could have made a marriage
happy, that union should have been thrice blessed.
--Motley.
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| Related Terms: | | accord, accordance, affability, affinity, agape, agreeability, agreeableness, agreement, amenity, amiability, amiableness, amicability, amicableness, amity, assent, bliss, blissfulness, bonds of harmony, brotherly love, caritas, cement of friendship, charity, chorus, civility, clubbability, clubbishness, clubbism, coherence, coincidence, communicativeness, communion, community, community of interests, companionability, compatibility, complaisance, concert, concord, concordance, conformance, conformation, conformity, congeneracy, congruence, congruency, congruity, connateness, connaturality, connaturalness, connature, consistency, consonance, consort, cooperation, cordiality, correspondence, courtesy, empathy, enjoyableness, equivalence, esprit, esprit de corps, familiarity, family favor, family likeness, feeling of identity, felicitousness, fellow feeling, fellowship, fondness for society, frictionlessness, friendliness, friendship, generic resemblance, geniality, good vibes, good vibrations, goodliness, goodness, graciousness, gregariousness, happy family, harmoniousness, harmony, hospitality, identity, intersection, intimacy, kindness, kinship, like-mindedness, love, mellifluousness, mellowness, mutuality, neighborlikeness, neighborliness, niceness, oneness, overlap, parallelism, peace, peaceableness, pleasance, pleasantness, pleasantry, pleasingness, pleasurability, pleasurableness, pleasure, pleasurefulness, rapport, rapprochement, reciprocity, self-consistency, sharing, sociability, sociableness, social grace, sociality, solidarity, sweetness, symmetry, sympathy, symphony, sync, synchronism, tally, team spirit, timing, understanding, unhostility, uniformity, union, unison, unisonance, unity, urbanity, welcomeness, well-affectedness |
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