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suavity

suavity noun: the quality of being sweet or pleasing to the mind; agreeableness; pleasantness.

Noun

suavity (countable and uncountable, plural suavities)

  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.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...

suavity meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

suavity in Tamil

நைச்சியம்

suavity in Malayalam

sophistication, charm, polish
സൗമ്യത, സംസ്കാരചാരുത്വം, നയശീലം, ഉപചാരം, ആകർഷകസ്വഭാവം, സുജനമര്യാദ

Examples of suavity in a sentence

  • [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.1874, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Ordered South”, in Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers, London: C[harles] Kegan Paul & Co., […], published...
  • [T]he brothers’ gowns and broad straw hats were hanging up, each with his religious name upon a board,—names full of legendary suavity and interest, such as Basil, Hilarion, Raphael, or Pacifique; […]1879, Robert Louis Stevenson, “[Our Lady of the Snows.] The Monks.”, in Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes, 1st American edition...

Synonyms of suavity

Forms of suavity

pluralsuavities

Origin of suavity

From Middle English suavite, suavitee, suavyte, from Middle French suavité and its etymon Latin suāvitās.

Words formed from suavity

Questions about suavity

What does suavity mean?
Suavity means the quality of being sweet or pleasing to the mind; agreeableness; pleasantness.
What is suavity in Tamil?
Suavity in Tamil is நைச்சியம். See Suavity meaning in Tamil.
How do you use suavity in a sentence?
[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.
What part of speech is suavity?
Suavity is a noun.
What is the plural of suavity?
The plural of suavity is suavities.

Words near suavity in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: suavity (page history and authors); suavity (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); suavity (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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