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congruity
CIDE DICTIONARY
congruity, n. [Cf. F. congruit.].
- 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?" [1913 Webster]"A whole sentence may fail of its congruity by wanting one particle." [1913 Webster]
- Coincidence, as that of lines or figures laid over one another. [1913 Webster]
- That, in an imperfectly good persons, which renders it suitable for God to bestow on him gifts of grace. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
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, unisonanceROGET THESAURUS
congruity
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 "congruity" in Webster Dictionary Online