Word Meanings - CONGENIALITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The state or quality of being congenial; natural affinity; adaptation; suitableness. Sir J. Reynolds. If congeniality of tastes could have made a marriage happy, that union should have been thrice blessed. Motley.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONGENIALITY)
- Correspondence
- Fitness
- agreement
- adaptation
- congruity
- answerableness
- match
- congeniality
- communication
- letter
- writing
- despatches
- Sympathy
- Fellow-feeling
- commiseration
- compassion
- pity
- concert
- tenderness
- condolence
Related words: (words related to CONGENIALITY)
- COMMISERATION
The act of commiserating; sorrow for the wants, afflictions, or distresses of another; pity; compassion. And pluck commiseration of his state From brassy bosoms and rough hearts of flint. Shak. Syn. -- See Sympathy. - COMPASSIONATELY
In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon. - WRITING
1. The act or art of forming letters and characters on paper, wood, stone, or other material, for the purpose of recording the ideas which characters and words express, or of communicating them to others by visible signs. 2. Anything written or - FITNESS
The state or quality of being fit; as, the fitness of measures or laws; a person's fitness for office. - TENDERNESS
The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective). Syn. -- Benignity; humanity; sensibility; benevolence; kindness; pity; clemency; mildness; mercy. - WRITATIVE
Inclined to much writing; -- correlative to talkative. Pope. - CONGRUITY
Coincidence, as that of lines or figures laid over one another. (more info) 1. The state or quality of being congruous; the relation or agreement between things; fitness; harmony; correspondence; consistency. With what congruity doth the church - MATCHMAKER
1. One who makes matches for burning or kinding. 2. One who tries to bring about marriages. - CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL
A school that teaches by correspondence, the instruction being based on printed instruction sheets and the recitation papers written by the student in answer to the questions or requirements of these sheets. In the broadest sense of the - WRITER
1. One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk. They that handle the pen of the writer. Judg. v. 14. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer. Ps. xlv. 1. 2. One who is engaged in literary composition as a profession; an author; as, a writer - LETTERER
One who makes, inscribes, or engraves, alphabetical letters. - CONCERTMEISTER
The head violinist or leader of the strings in an orchestra; the sub-leader of the orchestra; concert master. - WRIT
3d pers. sing. pres. of Write, for writeth. Chaucer. - LETTERURE
Letters; literature. "To teach him letterure and courtesy." Chaucer. - FELLOW-FEELING
1. Sympathy; a like feeling. 2. Joint interest. Arbuthnot. - CONCERTATIVE
Contentious; quarrelsome. Bailey. - WRITHLE
To wrinkle. Shak. - MATCHLOCK
An old form of gunlock containing a match for firing the priming; hence, a musket fired by means of a match. - CONCERTION
Act of concerting; adjustment. Young. - COMMUNICATION
A trope, by which a speaker assumes that his hearer is a partner in his sentiments, and says we, instead of I or you. Beattie. Syn. -- Correspondence; conference; intercourse. (more info) 1. The act or fact of communicating; as, communication of - INCORRESPONDENCE; INCORRESPONDENCY
Want of correspondence; disagreement; disproportion. - REWRITE
To write again. Young. - BLACK LETTER
The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type. - TYPEWRITING
The act or art of using a typewriter; also, a print made with a typewriter. - PLAYWRITER
A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky. - INTERCOMMUNICATION
Mutual communication. Owen. - STORY-WRITER
1. One who writes short stories, as for magazines. 2. An historian; a chronicler. "Rathums, the story-writer." 1 Esdr. ii. 17. - UNDERWRITING
The business of an underwriter, - INCOMPASSIONATE
Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n. - UNDERWRITER
One who underwrites his name to the conditions of an insurance policy, especially of a marine policy; an insurer. - PRECONCERTED
Previously arranged; agreed upon beforehand. -- Pre`con*cert"ed*ly, adv. -- Pre`con*cert"ed*ness, n.