suavity

[ swah-vi-tee, swav-i- ]

noun

, plural suav·i·ties.

1. a suave or smoothly agreeable quality.
2. suavities, suave or courteous actions or manners; amenities.

Word History and Origins

Origin of suavity¹

1400–50; late Middle English < Latin suāvitās pleasantness, equivalent to suāv ( is ) sweet + -itās -ity

Example Sentences

She nodded and smiled to one and another with an almost royal suavity and condescension.

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"What you wanted to tell me," he said with exasperating suavity.

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No, I dont desire peace to keep on making money, answered the other, with a suavity which suggested a smile.

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Yet these too, with all their sympathy and suavity and sweet reasonableness, are policemen au fond.

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The haut en bas in the tone strengthened me in a moment, bracing my nerves as suavity and gentleness would not have done.

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