Noun
suavity (countable and uncountable, plural suavities)
- The quality of being sweet or pleasing to the mind; agreeableness; pleasantness
suavity of manners
suavity of language, conversation, or address
1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque:[...] nothing, not even the crude curves of the railway, can utterly deform the suavity of contour of one bay after another along the whole reach of the Riviera.
- (obsolete) Sweetness or agreeableness to the senses, especially of taste and odour.
1513, Henry Bradshaw, edited by Edward Hawkins, The Holy Lyfe and History of Saynt Werburge: Very Frutefull for All Christen People to Rede (Remains Historical & Literary Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester Published by The Chetham Society; volume XV), […] The Chetham Society, published 1848:Whan this ſayd monument diſcouered was / Suche a ſuauite and fragrant odoure / Aſcended from the corps by ſingular grace / Paſſyng all worldly ſwetnes and ſauour / That all there present that day and hour / Suppoſed they had ben / in the felicite / Of erthely paradiſe / without ambiguite.
Translations
-The quality of being sweet or pleasing to the mind
- Dutch: hoflijkheid f
- Finnish: sulavakäytöksisyys
- French: courtoisie (fr) f
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