harmoniousness

noun

as in congruity

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for harmoniousness
  1. congruity
  2. compatibility
  3. agreeableness
  4. appropriateness
  5. suitability
  6. rightness
  7. happiness
  8. felicity
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
  • The MacBook and the iPad are slowly converging, and there is a certain level of cross-compatibility between apps.
    — Ewan Spence, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
  • The company also designed the chip to work with leading server platforms based on Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC processors, improving compatibility across existing data-center infrastructure.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of compatibility
Noun
  • The Big Five traits are openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism.
    — Refractor, Refractor, 27 July 2026
  • And so the man offered more economic clout; the woman would offer soft skills, would offer agreeableness.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026
Definition of agreeableness
Noun
  • And yet, the shows are also wildly different, not just in terms of the age appropriateness of their content.
    — David Mack, CNN Money, 17 July 2026
  • After a presentation and discussion on April 14, the Miami Beach Historic Preservation Board voted to approve a certificate of appropriateness for the project but with conditions and limitations.
    — Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 9 July 2026
Definition of appropriateness
Noun
  • The Agentic Fit And Value Impact Assessment This includes evaluation of individual workflows based on their intrinsic, technical suitability for AI execution (agentic fit) and their potential strategic business return (value impact).
    — Pranjal Saxena, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
  • Diomande’s suitability for Mourinho goes beyond his attacking output.
    — Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 30 July 2026
Definition of suitability
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • In the past decade or so, happiness rates have declined precipitously for unmarried adults—regardless of education level—much more so than for those who are married, Yifeng Wan, a researcher at the University of Virginia, has found.
    — Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Despite the middling score in the economic category, WalletHub’s analysis surmised that Fremont’s happiness is bolstered by its high share (nearly 80%) of households with an income above $75,000.
    — Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 3 Aug. 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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“Harmoniousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/harmoniousness. Accessed 5 Aug. 2026.

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