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congruity

Other forms: congruities

Congruity is a quality of agreement and appropriateness. When there's congruity, things fit together in a way that makes sense. If a team has congruity, the players work together well, even if they don’t win.

The word congruity is from the Old French congruité for "relevance and appropriateness." Students reading quietly in a library is an example of congruity. A clown juggling fire in a library would be an incongruity, which is when things don't fit together. A well-decorated room, where the colors complement each other, has congruity. Wearing a tuxedo to a classical music concert shows congruity: wearing a tux to a heavy metal concert would not.

Definitions of congruity
  1. noun
    the quality of agreeing; being suitable and appropriate
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    antonyms:
    incongruity
    the quality of disagreeing; being unsuitable and inappropriate
    type of:
    harmoniousness, harmony
    compatibility in opinion and action
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