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congruity

congruity

1 7.4
A good match between things or ideas that makes them fit together
  • noun
  • /kənˈɡruːɪti/
  • Formal
: congruencia
  • Corporate executives were attentive to the perceived congruities between small-flexible and big-inflexible that might lead the manager-employee to feelings of potential skepticism.
  • cultural congruity
  • lack of congruity
  • value congruity

What any healthy person has is congruity, congruity between their behavior and their values.

Examples

  • Does a lack of congruity between parental and teacher approaches create confusion in students?

    Academic text (1990)
  • The setting sketches anchor your writing and allow you to maintain congruity in your place descriptions.

    Academic text (2011)
  • What any healthy person has is congruity, congruity between their behavior and their values.

  • Again, the closer their values are to 1, the greater the congruity between the model and the findings.

    Academic text (2000)
  • Researchers have found a lack of congruity between the content and the population being addressed.

    Academic text (1992)
  • The goal is to reward those physicians who are efficiently using resources, are outcome-oriented, and maintain congruity within the practice.

    Academic text (1993)
  • And Olivia and I are, by her own vibrations, the acme of congruity.

  • Our first two hypotheses refer to the impact of actual and ideal self-congruity on emotional brand attachment.

    Academic text (2018)
  • There was a striking congruity between the company's mission statement and its actual practices.

  • The teacher emphasized the importance of congruity between students' actions and their stated values.

Synonyms

accordance
vscongruity
85 3.9

Following a rule, instruction, or request

covers suitability or harmonious fit beyond formal compliance
congruence
vscongruity
2 6.7

A situation where something fits well with something else

emphasizes appropriateness or suitability rather than simple matching
congruency
vscongruity
1 6.3

Close agreement between ideas, actions, or values

stresses suitability or proper fit rather than mere correspondence
consistence
vscongruity
1 6.9

The way parts or ideas fit together in an argument

focuses on overall appropriateness rather than internal sameness
harmoniousness
vscongruity
1 6.5

A pleasing, balanced arrangement of parts like colours or ideas

is broader, meaning general agreement or suitability rather than aesthetics
congruousness
vscongruity
  • Formal
7.7

How well two things fit or match each other

leans more toward general agreement or fit than just appropriateness

Antonyms

6 8.0

A situation where something does not fit or seem right

How Congruent

congruity
  • Formal
1 7.4
match
323 2.1
similarity
162 2.7
incongruity
6 8.0

Surface Forms

congruity singular
congruities plural

Morphology

congruity = congruous (transparent) = congruous + ity

A straightforward nominalization of the adjective 'congruous' with '-ity', giving the state or quality of being in agreement.

Etymology

Congruity comes from the root con- ('together') and the same idea as congruent, which means 'fitting together'. So, congruity is the quality of things agreeing or fitting well with each other.