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suavities

suavities is the plural of suavity.

Meaning of suavity

Noun

suavity (countable and uncountable, plural suavities)

  1. The quality of being sweet or pleasing to the mind; agreeableness; pleasantness
    • suavity of manners
  2. The quality of being suave.
    • Macavity, Macavity, there’s no one like Macavity,
      There never was a Cat of such deceitfulness and suavity.1939, T. S. Eliot, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
    Synonyms:
    suaveness, suavitude
  3. (obsolete) 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.1513, Henry Bradshaw, edited by Edward Hawkins, The Holy Lyfe and History of Saynt Werburge: Very Frutefull for All Christen People to Rede (Remains Historical & Literary Connected with the Palatine...

Questions about suavities

What is suavities the plural of?
Suavities is the plural of suavity.

Words near suavities in the dictionary

  1. suavifying
  2. suaviloquence
  3. suaviloquent
  4. suaviloquy
  5. suavious
  6. suavities
  7. suavitude
  8. suavity
  9. suavo
  10. suavos
  11. suay

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