'Congruity' definitions:
Definition of 'congruity'
From: WordNet
noun
The quality of agreeing; being suitable and appropriate [syn: congruity, congruousness, congruence] [ant: incongruity, incongruousness]
Definition of 'Congruity'
From: GCIDE
- Congruity \Con*gru"i*ty\ (? or ?), n.; pl. Congruities. [Cf. F. congruit?.]
- 1. The state or quality of being congruous; the relation or agreement between things; fitness; harmony; correspondence; consistency. [1913 Webster]
- With what congruity doth the church of Rome deny that her enemies do at all appertain to the church of Christ? --Hooker. [1913 Webster]
- A whole sentence may fail of its congruity by wanting one particle. --Sir P. Sidney. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Geom.) Coincidence, as that of lines or figures laid over one another. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Scholastic Theol.) That, in an imperfectly good persons, which renders it suitable for God to bestow on him gifts of grace. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'congruity'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accommodation,
- accord,
- accordance,
- acquiescence,
- adaptation,
- adaption,
- adjustment,
- affinity,
- agreement,
- assent,
- balance,
- bilateral symmetry,
- chorus,
- coherence,
- coincidence,
- compatibility,
- compliance,
- concert,
- concord,
- concordance,
- conformance,
- conformation,
- conformation other-direction,
- conformity,
- congeniality,
- congruence,
- congruency,
- consistency,
- consonance,
- consort,
- conventionality,
- cooperation,
- correspondence,
- dynamic symmetry,
- equality,
- equilibrium,
- equivalence,
- eurythmics,
- eurythmy,
- evenness,
- finish,
- flexibility,
- harmony,
- intersection,
- keeping,
- line,
- malleability,
- multilateral symmetry,
- obedience,
- observance,
- oneness,
- orthodoxy,
- overlap,
- parallelism,
- peace,
- pliancy,
- polarity,
- proportion,
- proportionality,
- rapport,
- reconcilement,
- reconciliation,
- regularity,
- self-consistency,
- shapeliness,
- strictness,
- symmetricalness,
- symmetry,
- sync,
- synchronism,
- tally,
- timing,
- traditionalism,
- trilateral symmetry,
- uniformity,
- union,
- unison,
- unisonance