Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

insuavity

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: in-suavi-ty
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Lack of suavity; unpleasantness.

Countable; Obsolete; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"All fears, griefs, suspicions, discontents, įmbonities, insuavities, are swallowed up and drowned in this Euripus, this Irish sea, this ocean of misery"
"It was not till this moment that Clym recollected her to be the person who had behaved so barbarously to Eustacia. It partly explained the insuavity with which the woman greeted him."
"He was bearded, blunt, thickset, and he wore gold-rimmed spectacles. In his bourrue-bienfaisance, in his honesty, and in his brusque insuavity towards such as would compel his sympathy without justification, he was the very type of the dogmatic family doctor—of the gruffly practical allopathist of the old school."

Etymology

From Latin insuavitas. Compare French insuavité. See in- (“not”) + suavity.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Prefix: in-
Root: insuavitas
Suffix: suavity

Usage

Inflected Forms

insuavities (plural)

Questions

What does insuavity mean?: Lack of suavity; unpleasantness.
Where does insuavity come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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