suavity
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Definition of suavity
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(countable, uncountable)The quality of being sweet or pleasing to the mind; agreeableness; pleasantness
“suavity of manners”
“suavity of language, conversation, or address”
“[N]othing, not even the crude curves of the railway, can utterly deform the suavity of contour of one bay after another along the whole reach of the Riviera.”
“[T]he brothers’ gowns and broad straw hats were hanging up, each with his religious name upon a board,—names full of legendary suavity and interest, such as Basil, Hilarion, Raphael, or Pacifique; […]”
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noun
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(countable, uncountable)The quality of being sweet or pleasing to the mind; agreeableness; pleasantness
“suavity of manners”
“suavity of language, conversation, or address”
“[N]othing, not even the crude curves of the railway, can utterly deform the suavity of contour of one bay after another along the whole reach of the Riviera.”
“[T]he brothers’ gowns and broad straw hats were hanging up, each with his religious name upon a board,—names full of legendary suavity and interest, such as Basil, Hilarion, Raphael, or Pacifique; […]”
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(countable, uncountable)The quality of being suave.
“Macavity, Macavity, there’s no one like Macavity, There never was a Cat of such deceitfulness and suavity.”
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(countable, obsolete, uncountable)Sweetness or agreeableness to the senses, especially of taste and odour.
“Whan this ſayd monument diſcouered was / Suche a ſuauite and fragrant odoure / Aſcended from the corps by ſingular grace / Paſſyng all worldly ſwetnes and ſauour / That all there present that day and hour / Suppoſed they had ben / in the felicite / Of erthely paradiſe / without ambiguite.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English suavite, suavitee, suavyte, from Middle French suavité and its etymon Latin suāvitās.
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