[1400–50; late ME ‹ L suāvitās pleasantness, equiv. to suāv(is) sweet + -itās-ity]This word is first recorded in the period 1400–50. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: dial, mature, oblique, structure, union-ity is a suffix used to form abstract nouns expressing state or condition. Other wordsthat use the affix -ity include: Latinity, civility, jollity
Examples of 'suavity' in a sentence
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But suavity alone can't save an album unduly swamped with crassness and slush.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
He had a talent for telling blatant lies with angelic suavity.
The Times Literary Supplement (2018)
Yet both retain clear classical outlines, oozing the sweet suavity that is his hallmark.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
All the old naffness and hushed suavity of grand hotel dining rooms still lurks.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
He gets away with it because he delivers his poetic lines with such wonderfully battered suavity.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
For all its modern, atonal, chic suavity, the variety of ingredients in combination were limited, the flavours cloddish.