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Suavity

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being sweet or pleasing to the mind; agreeableness; pleasantness countable, uncountable

    "suavity of manners"

  2. 2
    the quality of being bland and gracious or ingratiating in manner wordnet
  3. 3
    The quality of being suave. countable, uncountable

    "Macavity, Macavity, there’s no one like Macavity, There never was a Cat of such deceitfulness and suavity."

  4. 4
    Sweetness or agreeableness to the senses, especially of taste and odour. countable, obsolete, uncountable

    "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.

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