Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The quality or fact of being congruous.
- n. The quality or fact of being congruent.
- n. A point of agreement.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state or quality of being congruous; agreement between things; harmony of relation; fitness; pertinence; consistency; appropriateness.
- n. In scholastic theology, the performance of good actions, which is supposed to render it meet and equitable that God should confer grace on those who perform them. See condignity, 2.
- n. In geometry, equality; capacity of being superposed.
Wiktionary
- n. The quality of agreeing; the quality of being suitable and appropriate.
- n. An instance or point of agreement or correspondence; a resemblance.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The state or quality of being congruous; the relation or agreement between things; fitness; harmony; correspondence; consistency.
- n. (Geom.) Coincidence, as that of lines or figures laid over one another.
- n. (Scholastic Theol.) That, in an imperfectly good persons, which renders it suitable for God to bestow on him gifts of grace.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the quality of agreeing; being suitable and appropriate
Examples
“My labours (if I may so term that which was the comfort of my other labours) I have dedicated to the King; desirous, if there be any good in them, it may be as the fat of a sacrifice, incensed to his honour: and the second copy I have sent unto you, not only in good affection, but in a kind of congruity, in regard of your great and rare desert of learning.”
“In fact, there is a kind of congruity and method even in fooling.”
“Mill was dissatisfied with the "congruity" of concepts as the basis of a judgment.”
“Dane was, by a kind of congruity, called on to make his own.”
“Still he as constantly maintained them, with a kind of congruity that astonished me, and even rendered many of them plausible.”
“Recent historiography has argued that the British ecclesiastical policies of James I, (king of England (1603-25) and, as James VI, of Scotland (1567-1625)), sought "congruity" between the different churches in Scotland, England, and”
“(king of England (1603-25) and, as James VI, of Scotland (1567-1625)), sought "congruity" between the different churches in Scotland, England, and Ireland rather than British ecclesiastical union or the Anglicanization of all the churches.”
“(king of England (1603-25) and, as James VI, of Scotland (1567-1625)), sought "congruity" between the different churches in Scotland, England, and”
“This congruity is most obvious during "Everything," with an insistent chugging that quotes the Jewellery opener "Vulture.”
“Perhaps getting those cables installed and cleared, along with congruity and healthful habits, can carry us through those times when prayer or meditation or mindfulness is too hard.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘congruity’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2046 more...
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common UA vocab. in US
Interesting, there is a traditional vocabulary of an Ukrainian, that differs from vocabulary of average American. It would be nice to explore it.
jackdaw, incongruous, cassock, vivid, magpie, humdrum, amongst, wonder, wandering, wheedling, wheedle, osseous and 368 more...
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Words I Know
List of most of the words I've learned
garner, abase, abate, abdicate, abduct, aberration, abet, abhor, abide, abject, abjure, abnegation and 1046 more...
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discoveries
These are lexical items new to me that I've discovered in actual use (i.e. not in dictionaries, lists, or this site).
Looking back over this list, I haven't the slightest idea what mos...haymow, hawsepipe, stridor, bariatric, autotelic, apotropaic, cyanotype, tourelle, autobody, zudecca, stifado, corbeille and 1073 more...
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frequent toefl
Words that I do not know or unsure for toefl
appurtenances, aptitude, arbitrary, arboretum, argot, arrears, avocation, avuncular, badger, bait, warden, bane and 428 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for congruity.
qroqqa 'What is there incongruous in this?' his lordship asked.
'Oh nothing, nothing! the congruity will be prodigious. Ages so near; tempers so alike; the lady so willing to make the most of her charms. O yes! you will have a son!'
—Robert Bage, 1796, Hermsprong
One of those words where the derivative is familiar, and if you thought about it you would be sure that where there is an incongruity there must be a congruity in its history, but you have almost certainly never seen it in the wild. Mar 21, 2009