'Congeniality' definitions:
Definition of 'congeniality'
(from WordNet)
noun
Compatibility between persons [syn: congenialness, congeniality]
noun
A congenial disposition [ant: uncongeniality]
Definition of 'Congeniality'
From: GCIDE
- Congeniality \Con*ge`ni*al"i*ty\ (? or ?; 106), n. The state or quality of being congenial; natural affinity; adaptation; suitableness. --Sir J. Reynolds. [1913 Webster]
- If congeniality of tastes could have made a marriage happy, that union should have been thrice blessed. --Motley. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Compatibility between persons.
- Syn: congenialness. [WordNet 1.5]
- 3. The personality trait of being friendly to a conspicuous degree.
- Syn: geniality. [PJC]
- 4. The personality trait of being likable or pleasant.
- Syn: pleasantness, likability. [WordNet 1.5]
Synonyms of 'congeniality'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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