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Webster 1913 Edition
Concinnity
Con-cin′ni-ty
,Noun.
[L.
concinnitas
, fr. concinnus
skillfully put together, beautiful. Of uncertain origin.] Internal harmony or fitness; mutual adaptation of parts; elegance; – used chiefly of style of discourse.
[R.]
An exact
concinnity
and eveness of fancy. Howell.
Webster 1828 Edition
Concinnity
CONCINNITY
,Noun.
1.
Fitness; suitableness; neatness. [Little used.]2.
A jingling of words.Definition 2024
concinnity
concinnity
English
Noun
concinnity (countable and uncountable, plural concinnities)
- (music) The harmonious reinforcement of the various parts of a work of art.
- 1815, William Kirby and William Spence, “Preface”, in An Introduction to Entomology: Or Elements of the Natural History of Insects: with Plates, volume 1, 3rd edition, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, published 1818, page xii:
- In the Terminology, or what, to avoid the barbarism of a word compounded of Latin and Greek, they would beg to call the Orismology of the science, they have endeavoured to introduce throughout a greater degree of precision and concinnity—dividing it into general and partial Orismology; […]
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Usage notes
Although the concept of concinnity can apply to any object or situation, it is most commonly used in the discussion of music.
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References
- ↑ Henry Hitchings, The Secret Life of Words