Definition of concinnity in English:
concinnity
noun kənˈsɪnɪtikənˈsinədē
mass nounrare 1The skilful and harmonious arrangement or fitting together of the different parts of something.
Example sentencesExamples
- Chronic impatience for getting to the "bottom line" or to "the point" dulls sensitivity to what concinnity stands for.
- This presentation reviews the arguments for comprehensive integration, but advances a contrasting Christian view, that as all knowledge was designed by the Creator as a connected, discoverable, integrated whole, it is already a "concinnity".
- For a half-century, some version of this integrated vision, with its logical progression and simple concinnity - shuttle to station, station to ship, and thence to the planets!
- That geologic concinnity's taste is what we know and who we are.
- 1.1 Studied elegance of literary or artistic style.
Example sentencesExamples
- Generally the higher the art, the higher the degree of concinnity.
- No mall store could create a thing of such simple, fragile concinnity.
Origin
Mid 16th century: from Latin concinnitas, from concinnus 'skilfully put together'.