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Definition: CONCINNITY |
CONCINNITYNoun1. Internal harmony or fitness; mutual adaptation of parts; elegance; -- used chiefly of style of discourse. |
Etymology: Concinnity \Con*cin"ni*ty\, noun. [Latin expression concinnitas, from concinnus skillfully put together, beautiful. Of uncertain origin.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Beauty | Concinnity, delicacy, refinement; charm, je ne sais quoi, style. |
Elegance | Noun: elegance, purity, grace, ease; gracefulness, readiness; Adjective: concinnity, euphony, numerosity; Atticism, classicalism, classicism. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: CONCINNITY |
| English words defined with "CONCINNITY": Concinnous ♦ Inconcinnity. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "CONCINNITY": Inconcinnous. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
concinnity | 59 |
concinnity faucet | 27 |
concinnity pot filler | 5 |
concinnity kitchen faucet | 5 |
concinnity plumbing | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "CONCINNITY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Russian | изящество (daintiness, delicacy, elegance, elegancy, fineness, nicety, refinement, stylishness). (various references) | |
Swedish | skönhet (beauty, Belle, beuty, charms, fairness, loveliness, lovely, prettiness, pulchritude), elegans (chic, elegance, elegancy, fineness, finesse, flair, grace, refinement, splendor, splendour, style). (various references) | |
Turkish | uyum (accommodation, accord, accordance, balance, chime, coherence, coherency, concert, concord, concordance, conformity, congruence, congruity, consecution, consistence, consistency, consonance, harmony, keeping, proportion, rapport, rhythm, scheme, symmetry, symphony, tune, unison), tutarlık (coherence, coherency), ahenk (accord, accordance, agreement, cadence, chime, coherence, coherency, concert, concordance, concurrence, congruence, congruity, consonance, echo, euphony, harmony, rhythm, symmetry, symphony, tune, unison). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | lối h nh văn thanh nhã. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "CONCINNITY": inconcinnity. (additional references) | |
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"CONCINNITY" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: caninity, concinity. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "CONCINNITY" (pronounced 'Con*cin"ni*ty'): Ability, Abnormality, Abnormity, Aboriginality, Absorbability, Absorptivity, Abstrusity, Absurdity, Accendibility, Accentuality, Acceptability, Accessibility, Accidentality, Acclivity, Accomplicity, Accountability, Acerbity, Acetosity, Achromaticity, Acidity, Acquirability, Acrity, Activity, Actuality, Actuosity, Acuity, Addibility, Admirability, Admiralty, Admissibility, Adorability, Aduncity, Adverbiality, Adversity, Advisability, Aeriality, Affability, Affectibility, Agaty, Agility, Agreeability, Alacrity, Alamodality, Aldermanity, Algidity, Alibility, Alienability, Alkalinity, Allotropicity, Alterability. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-i-i-n-n-n-o-t-y" | |
-2 letters: conicity. | |
-3 letters: nicotin. | |
-4 letters: iconic, incony. | |
-5 letters: conic, conin, cynic, cyton, ictic, inion, ionic, ninny, ninon, niton, ontic, tinny, tonic, yonic. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-i-i-n-n-n-o-t-y" | |
+2 letters: inconcinnity, incontinency. | |
+3 letters: inconsistency. | |
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