Congruity

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.
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              With what congruity doth the church of Rome deny
              that her enemies do at all appertain to the church
              of Christ?                            --Hooker.
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              A whole sentence may fail of its congruity by
              wanting one particle.                 --Sir P.
                                                    Sidney.
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     2. (Geom.) Coincidence, as that of lines or figures laid over
        one another.
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     3. (Scholastic Theol.) That, in an imperfectly good persons,
        which renders it suitable for God to bestow on him gifts
        of grace.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  congruity
       n : the quality of agreeing; being suitable and appropriate
           [syn: {congruousness}, {congruence}] [ant: {incongruity},
            {incongruity}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  78 Moby Thesaurus words for "congruity":
     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