congruity

English

Etymology

From Old French congruité.

Noun

congruity (countable and uncountable, plural congruities)

1. The quality of agreeing; the quality of being suitable and appropriate.

   Synonyms: congruence, congruency

   Antonyms: incongruence, incongruency, incongruity

2. An instance or point of agreement or correspondence; a resemblance.

Derived terms

• discongruity

 

References

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “congruity”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

Anagrams

• crying out, outcrying