Suavity

Definition: Suavity

Suavity

Noun

1. Smooth and gracious in manner.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "suavity" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references)

Synonyms: Suavity

Courtesy

Noun: courtesy; respect; good manners, good behavior, good breeding; manners; politeness; Adjective: bienseance, urbanity, comity, gentility, breeding, polish, presence; civility, civilization; amenity, suavity; good temper, good humor; amiability, easy temper, complacency, soft tongue, mansuetude; condescension; (humility); affability, complaisance, pr_venance, amability, gallantry; pink of politeness, pink of courtesy.

Crosswords: Suavity

Albanian

mirësjellje (civility, complaisance, courtesy, decency, mannerliness, politeness, urbanity), ëmbëlsi (greasiness, honey, kindness, pleasantness, sweetness, tenderness). (various references)

Arabic 

‏لطف (affableness, allay, alleviate, amenity, amiability, appease, assuage, attemper, attenuate, benignity, civility, courtesy, ease, extenuate, friendliness, geniality, gentleness, kindness, lighten, mildness, mitigate, moderate, modify, mollify, palliate, politeness, qualify, quell, relax, relieve, smooth, soften, softness, soothe, sweeten, temper, tone down, urbanity), ‏أناقة (chic, daintiness, deftness, elegance, fineness, finery, neatness, richness, smartness, sophistication, sport, style, stylishness), ‏رقة (airiness, benignity, daintiness, delicacy, fineness, finesse, flimsiness, forgiveness, geniality, gentleness, graciousness, loveliness, neatness, polish, refinement, sensitiveness, sensitivity, sleeplessness, softness, subtlety, tenderling, tenderness, tenuity, tenuousness, thinness), ‏دماثة (gentleness, kindness, refinement). (various references)

Bulgarian 

приветливост (affability, amiability, sweetness), привидна любезност, изисканост (accomplishments, class, daintiness, elegance, elegancy, neatness, polish, politeness, refinement, stylishness, subtlety, urbanity). (various references)

Czech

příjemnost (amenity, sweet). (various references)

Farsi 

فهمیده ومودب بودن , ملایمت (Amenity, Calmness, Equanimity, Leniency, Warmth), نزاکت (Civility, Comity, Propriety, Tact), نرمی (Amenity, Gloss, Leniency, Pash, Plasticity, Unction). (various references)

French

politesse, finesse, élégance. (various references)

German

Höflichkeit (amenity, blandness, civility, comity, compliment, cordiality, courteousness, courtesy, courtliness, pleasantry, politeness, urbanity). (various references)

Hebrew 

� ועם �"ליכות. (various references)

Hungarian

nyájasság (affability, comeliness, friendliness, gentry, honey, kindness, loving-kindness), szeretetreméltóság (amiability, loveliness), behízelgő modor (silky manner). (various references)

Pig Latin

uavitysay

Portuguese

suavidade (candor, candour, geniality, gentleness, honey, lenience, leniency, lightness, mellowness, mildness, openness, placability, pleasantness, tenderness), urbanidade (mannerliness, urbanity), melifluidade, delicadeza (comity, consideration, courtesy, daintiness, delicacy, fineness, finesse, mannerliness, niceness, nicety, respect, tenderness, urbanity), cortesia (amenity, attention, civility, comity, courtesy, gallantry, mannerliness, politeness, urbanity), afabilidade (affability, affableness, amenability, amenity, friendness, goodness, kindness). (various references)

Romanian

suavitate (suaveness, sweet). (various references)

Russian 

обходительность (complaisance). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

umilnost (pleasantness), uglađenost (nicety, polish, politeness, refinement, smoothness), ljubaznost (affability, amiability, amicability, boon, cordiality, geniality, graciousness, kindliness, kindness, niceness). (various references)

Spanish

zalamería (blandishment, flattery, oiliness, sliminess, smoothness, unction), finura (discrimination, fineness, finesse, grace, lovableness, niceness, nicety, refinement, subtlety), cortesía (affability, candidness, chivalry, civility, comity, courtesy, curtsey, curtsy, decency, gallantry, politeness, urbanity), afabilidad (affability, amiability, geniality, informality, matiness, smoothness). (various references)

Swedish

älskvärdhet (affability, amiability, endearment, kindness). (various references)

Turkish

sevimlilik (amiability, charm, cuteness, geniality, loveliness, niceness, sweetness), tatlılık (affability, agreeableness, amenity, amiability, bonhomie, lusciousness, mellowness, smoothness, softness, sweet, sweetness), tatlı dillilik, nezaket (affability, civility, comity, complaisance, courtesy, daintiness, decency, decorum, delicacy, devoirs, gallantry, gentleness, grace, gracefulness, graciousness, keenness, kindliness, kindness, mildness, polish, politeness, sweetness, urbaneness, urbanity). (various references)

Ukrainian

улесливість (obsequiousness, oiliness), ввічливість (affability, civility, comity, complaisance, courtesy, courtliness, decency, mannerliness, politeness, urbanity). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tính thơm dịu tính khéo léo, tính ngọt ng� o, tính dịu ngọt. (various references)

Misspellings

"Suavity" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: saucity, Saviotti, Savuti, Seravit, soavita, suacity. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: vasty, vatus, vista.

-3 letters: aits, sati, stay, suit, taus, tavs, tivy, tuis, utas, vast, vats, vatu, vaus, visa, vita.

-4 letters: ais, ait, ays, its, ivy, sat, sau, say, sit, sty, tas, tau, tav, tis, tui, uta, uts, vas, vat, vau, via, vis.

-5 letters: ai, as, at, ay, is, it, si, ta, ti, us, ut.

+3 letters: subvariety.

+4 letters: causatively, vascularity, vexatiously.

+5 letters: assaultively, avascularity, exhaustively, exhaustivity, supergravity, supravitally, universality, vesicularity, voluntaryism, voluntaryist.