concinnityn.
/kənˈsɪnɪti/ 1.
a. Skilful and harmonious adaptation or fitting together of parts; harmony, congruity, consistency.
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the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > [noun]
accordmentc1330
accorda1398
consonancya1398
unitya1398
accordancea1400
commoningc1400
convenience1413
correspondence1413
answeringc1425
conformityc1430
consonance1430
congruity1447
concordancec1450
consonantc1475
agreement1495
monochordc1500
conveniencya1513
agreeance1525
agreeableness1531
concinnity1531
congruence1533
harmony?1533
concent1563
tunableness1569
agreeing1575
answerableness1577
concert1578
consent1578
sympathy1578
concord1579
symphonia1579
correspondency1589
atone1595
coherence1597
respondence1598
symphony1598
sortance1600
coherency1603
respondency1603
symbolizing1605
coaptation1614
compositiona1616
sympathizing1632
comportance1648
compliance1649
syntax1649
concinneness1655
symmetry1655
homology1656
consistency1659
consentaneousness1660
consistence1670
comportment1675
harmoniousness1679
symbolism1722
congruousness1727
accordancy1790
sameness1790
consentaneity1798
consilience1840
chime1847
consensus1854
solidarity1874
synchromesh1966
concordancing1976
1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. xx. sig. Kviiiv In euery of the said daunsis, there was a concinnitie of meuing the foote and body.
a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1957) III. 358 This World, a frame of so much harmony, so much concinnitie and conveniencie.
1668 J. Howe Blessednesse of Righteous xviii. 311 Meer confusion, without the least concinnity or order.
1675 E. Sherburne in tr. M. Manilius Sphere Pref. sig. b2 Reasons..grounded upon the Concinnity of Time, and Conformity of Study.
1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals II. xxii. 415 For the sake of concinnity of nomenclature.
b. (with plural) A harmony, a congruity. †Music. An imperfect concord: cf. concinnous discord at concinnous adj. 2.
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the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > [noun] > an instance of
convenience1534
concordance1605
congruity1605
congruency1615
concinnity1640
coincidencea1661
consistency1771
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > chord > [noun] > imperfect concord
emmele1609
imperfect concord1609
concinnous discord (or interval)1654
imperfect1659
concinnity1761
1640 G. Watts tr. F. Bacon Of Advancem. Learning vi. iii. 317 What man despiseth not those that hunt after these deformities and concinnities.
1663 W. Petty Let. in S. P. Rigaud & S. J. Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men 17th Cent. (1841) (modernized text) I. 103 I desire you to ask Lord Brounker..whether there be any thing in it but conjectures and concinnities.
1761 T. Twining Recreat. & Stud. (1882) 17 Concords, and discords, and concinnities or imperfect concords.
2.
a. Beauty of style produced by a skilful connection of words and clauses; hence, more generally, studied beauty, elegance, neatness of literary or artistic style, etc.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > elegance > [noun]
facunda1340
rhetoricc1405
elegancy?a1475
elegance?1504
facundity1530
grace1530
festivity1542
roundness1557
concinnity1577
style1589
comptness1611
politeness1627
concinneness1655
speakingness1851
style1851
daintiness1878
yugen1921
simplex munditiis1933
1577 H. Peacham Garden of Eloquence sig. B Cicero who supposed [figures] to be named of the Grecians Schemates,..called them Concinnitie,..comprising all ornamentes of speech vnder one name.
1697 J. Sergeant Solid Philos. 299 Art is to polish our Notions, and bring them to Exactness and Concinnity.
1771 Philos. Trans. 1770 (Royal Soc.) 60 83 (note) The Sicilians..excelled..in the elaborate concinnity of their money.
1865 S. A. Brooke Life Robertson I. 187 The clearness and concinnity of the thought and its illustration.
1878 E. Dowden Stud. Lit. 183 As great a master as Addison of concinnity in the playful.
1881 J. S. Blackie Lay Serm. vi. 198 The graceful concinnity of Livy.
1886 G. Allen For Maimie's Sake xxiii There was a neatness and concinnity about the way it worked that charmed her.
b. with plural. A studied beauty or elegance.
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the mind > attention and judgement > good taste > refinement > elegance > [noun]
elegancy?a1475
elegance1545
featness1576
garb1591
vagisness1604
fashionableness1640
gentility1753
featliness1843
concinnity1855
1855 J. L. Motley Rise Dutch Republic I. ii. iii. 359 A discourse..not likely, with all its concinnities..to exert a soothing influence upon the people.
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