suavity
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.33 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The quality of being sweet or pleasing to the mind; agreeableness; pleasantness
Countable; Uncountable
noun
Sweetness or agreeableness to the senses, especially of taste and odour.
Countable; Obsolete; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "suavity of manners"
- "suavity of language, conversation, or address"
- "[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."
- "[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; […]"
- "Macavity, Macavity, there’s no one like Macavity, There never was a Cat of such deceitfulness and suavity."
- "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."
Etymology
From Middle English suavite, suavitee, suavyte, from Middle French suavité and its etymon Latin suāvitās.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: suavite,suavitee,suavyte, suavité, suāvitās