suavity means the quality of being sweet or pleasing to the mind; agreeableness; pleasantness. It carries an Arena rating of 1814, earned across 47 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, suavity ranks #771 of 17,130 for Most Beautiful Words, #2,326 of 17,127 for Words That Escaped Their Books, #2,989 of 17,134 for Most Malleable Words, #3,172 of 17,126 for Most Elegant Words.
Why “suavity” is a great word
SUAVITY — [Noun] The quality of being smoothly agreeable, sophisticated, and charming in manner. From Middle English suavite, from Middle French suavité, from Latin suāvitās ("sweetness, pleasantness"), from suāvis ("sweet, agreeable"). Unlike blandness, which suggests a dull and passive inoffensiveness, or bluntness, which denotes a tactless directness, suavity is the disciplined performance of frictionless charm. It is the polished deflection of an insult with a deft compliment, the effortless catch of a stumbling wineglass before a drop is spilled, and the precisely timed gesture that flatters without groveling—a warm, invisible armor, designed not to repel, but to make the world forget it ever wanted to fight.
Etymology
From Middle English suavite, suavitee, suavyte, from Middle French suavité and its etymon Latin suāvitās.
noun
- The quality of being sweet or pleasing to the mind; agreeableness; pleasantnesse.g.“suavity of manners”
- The quality of being suave.e.g.“Macavity, Macavity, there’s no one like Macavity,
There never was a Cat of such deceitfulness and suavity.” — 1939, T. S. Eliot, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats:
- Sweetness or agreeableness to the senses, especially of taste and odour.
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