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congeniality
CIDE DICTIONARY
congeniality, 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." [1913 Webster]
- Compatibility between persons. [WordNet 1.5]
- The personality trait of being friendly to a conspicuous degree. [PJC]
- The personality trait of being likable or pleasant. [WordNet 1.5]
THESAURUS
congeniality
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-affectednessROGET THESAURUS
congeniality
Agreement
N agreement, accord, accordance, unison, harmony, concord, concordance, concert, understanding, mutual understanding, conformity, conformance, uniformity, consonance, consentaneousness, consistency, congruity, congruence, keeping, congeniality, correspondence, parallelism, apposition, union, fitness, aptness, relevancy, pertinence, pertinencey, sortance, case in point, aptitude, coaptation, propriety, applicability, admissibility, commensurability, compatibility, cognation, adaption, adjustment, graduation, accommodation, reconciliation, reconcilement, assimilation, consent, concurrence, cooperation, right man in the right place, very thing, quite the thing, just the thing, agreeing, suiting, in accord, accordant, concordant, consonant, congruous, consentaneous, correspondent, congenial, coherent, becoming, harmonious reconcilable, conformable, in accordance with, in harmony with, in keeping with, in unison with at one with, of one mind, of a piece, consistent, compatible, proportionate, commensurate, on all fours, apt, apposite, pertinent, pat, to the point, to the purpose, happy, felicitous, germane, ad rem, in point, on point, directly on point, bearing upon, applicable, relevant, admissible, fit adapted, in loco, a propos, appropriate, seasonable, sortable, suitable, idoneous, deft, meet, at home, in one's proper element, a propos of, pertinently, rem acu tetigisti, if the shoe fits, wear it, the cap fits, auxilia humilia firma consensus facit, discers concordia.For further exploring for "congeniality" in Webster Dictionary Online