CONGRUITY Synonyms: 65 Similar and Opposite Words

congruity

noun

kən-ˈgrü-ə-tē

Definition of congruity

as in similarity

a point which two or more things share in common the book alleges certain congruities between several political assassinations that were thought to be unrelated

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as in accordance

a state of consistency there's little congruity between your professed religious beliefs and your actual behavior

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Recent Examples of congruity Irony involves incongruity, while tragicomedy is about possible congruity—not mutual erasure but the capacity for the tragic and comic to coexist. — Eugenie Brinkema, ARTnews.com, 14 June 2026 There’s always been a nice congruity between watching movies with an audience in a cinema and the entire world coming together, gathering around TV sets, to honor the best of those films at the Oscars. — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 7 Jan. 2026 With three new offensive lineman joining center Aaron Brewer and tackle Austin Jackson, the importance of congruity cannot be understated. — Miami Herald, 21 July 2025 Uncanny forms—semi-organic shapes, with stray kinks and curves hammered flat—assumed an unlikely congruity. — Raffi Khatchadourian, The New Yorker, 9 May 2022 Women still have to work harder to overcome role-congruity bias. — Shaheena Janjuha-Jivraj, Forbes, 12 June 2021 Fortunately, that lack of congruity didn’t detract from superb upper fit and security for most testers. — Adam Chase, Outside Online, 9 Apr. 2021 Create congruity between your spending and giving and your values. — Ross Levin, Star Tribune, 14 Nov. 2020 This should have been an experience of affirmation and tangible progression towards physical congruity to my truest self but instead was fraught with anxiety — the treatments weren’t working. — Trésor Prijs, Teen Vogue, 1 June 2018

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Noun

Benson’s death has similarities to other e-bicycle and e-motorcycle incidents, including two deaths in Huntington Beach — that of a 62-year-old Westminster woman on Saturday and a 21-year-old man in July.

— Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2026
Of course, the two men bonded at the time about their most noticeable similarity, comparing notes on how they were treated by other kids in school for being redheads.

— Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of similarity

Noun

Foot swelling is also more likely to occur in the types of runs the Mach 7 is built for, so its jacquard mesh upper can expand in accordance.

— Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 20 Oct. 2026
And Jesus showed us how to bring our thoughts and actions into accordance with God’s healing power.

— The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of accordance

Noun

And more importantly, what is this anxiety so many men feel about their emotions that drives them to torturously invent bodies that bear little resemblance to the human form?

— Jay Weissberg, Variety, 23 Oct. 2026
For many people, however, the presentation instead bears an uncanny and unfortunate resemblance to imagery used in Nazi-era Germany.

— Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of resemblance

Noun

Reality, for Doomed, hangs on the harmony of the spheres, a crystalline architecture with the power to dazzle—and, at times, to lull.

— Ryan Meehan, Pitchfork, 26 Oct. 2026
The synth melody is poignant through the buds, but the upper vocal harmony and some of the upper-register atmospheric instruments are slightly buried.

— Mark Knapp, PC Magazine, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of harmony

Noun

At the end of September, leaders of several of the biggest AI companies went to the White House and signed an accord committing to internal risk controls, independent audits and board-level oversight of safety.

— Giorgos Tsetis, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2026
Anthropic's Amodei signed the accord, as did top executives at Google, Meta, OpenAI, SpaceX and Nvidia.

— Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 15 Oct. 2026

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