CONGENIALITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does congeniality mean? 

• CONGENIALITY (noun)
  The noun CONGENIALITY has 2 senses:

1. compatibility between persons

2. a congenial disposition

  Familiarity information: CONGENIALITY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONGENIALITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Compatibility between persons

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

congeniality; congenialness

Hypernyms ("congeniality" is a kind of...):

compatibility (capability of existing or performing in harmonious or congenial combination)

Derivation:

congenial (suitable to your needs)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A congenial disposition

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("congeniality" is a kind of...):

friendliness (a friendly disposition)

Antonym:

uncongeniality (a disposition not to be congenial)

 Context examples 

There was a reviving pleasure in this intercourse, of a kind now tasted by me for the first time—the pleasure arising from perfect congeniality of tastes, sentiments, and principles.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

There is no congeniality between him and the rest of the men aboard ship.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Meaning nothing but a certain matured frivolity and selfishness, not always inseparable from full-blown years, I think she confirmed him in his fear that he was a constraint upon his young wife, and that there was no congeniality of feeling between them, by so strongly commending his design of lightening the load of her life.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)