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suavity
noun 3
Collocations
3VERB + SUAVITY
deform
SUAVITY + NOUN
contour, conversation, language
ADV.
utterly
Definitions
noun
1
The quality of being sweet or pleasing to the mind; agreeableness; pleasantness
suavity of manners
suavity of language, conversation, or address
2
The quality of being suave.
Macavity, Macavity, there’s no one like Macavity, There never was a Cat of such deceitfulness and suavity.
3
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.
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Synonyms
noun — the quality of being bland and gracious or ingratiating in m
- suaveness
- blandness
- smoothness
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
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suavity of manners
Wiktionary02
suavity of language, conversation, or address
Wiktionary03
[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.
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