HARMONIOUSNESS Synonyms: 60 Similar and Opposite Words

harmoniousness

noun

as in congruity

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Noun

Irony involves incongruity, while tragicomedy is about possible congruity—not mutual erasure but the capacity for the tragic and comic to coexist.

— Eugenie Brinkema, ARTnews.com, 14 June 2026
There’s always been a nice congruity between watching movies with an audience in a cinema and the entire world coming together, gathering around TV sets, to honor the best of those films at the Oscars.

— Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 7 Jan. 2026

Definition of congruity

Noun

Your excessive agreeableness may also be interpreted by decision-makers as lacking conviction, preventing you from getting promoted.

— Melody Wilding, CNBC, 9 Aug. 2026
The Big Five traits are openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism.

— Refractor, Refractor, 27 July 2026

Definition of agreeableness

Noun

And if there is a credible question about a speaker’s appropriateness, the library should investigate and act rationally based on actual evidence.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2026
As many as 11 sketches were removed, including a self-referential skit in which David Mitchell and Robert Webb joked about the appropriateness of Blackface while in Blackface.

— Jake Kanter, Deadline, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of appropriateness

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By comparison, investment brokers must follow a suitability standard, which means recommendations must be appropriate but not always the best option for the client.

— Kate Dore, CFP®, EA,Kelli Grant, CFP®, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2026
Krenwinkel was granted parole on a preliminary basis Tuesday at her 18th hearing to gauge her suitability for parole, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

— Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of suitability

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Cool Machine is definitive not only for its sweep but also for the rightness, the evocative precision, of the details that fill its paragraphs like the mystery mix inside the skin of a Gray’s Papaya hot dog.

— David Hajdu, The Atlantic, 16 July 2026
If the Sun is high in the lunar sky during the flyby, there will be few shadows, and the crew will be looking for subtle variations in surface color and rightness.

— Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2026

Definition of rightness

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Still, some royal observers don’t think their happiness will last.

— Allison DeGrushe, StyleCaster, 5 Oct. 2026
The happiness was real, for a time, but the two artists, each with his own distinct problems and needs, were not going to be happy together, or with anyone else, for long.

— Alan Hollinghurst, The New York Review of Books, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of happiness

Noun

Sills, whose felicity with Shakespeare’s language is so formidable as to sometimes walk off with Othello’s requisite vulnerability, did not always travel far enough down Kadri’s road.

— Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 26 June 2026
What was the secret of American felicity and prosperity?

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 June 2026

Definition of felicity

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