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Congeniality

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con·gen·ial  (kn-jnyl)
adj.
1. Having the same tastes, habits, or temperament; sympathetic.
2. Of a pleasant disposition; friendly and sociable: a congenial host.
3. Suited to one's needs or nature; agreeable: congenial surroundings.
[Probably from con- + Latin genius, the personification of one's natural inclinations; see genius.]
con·geni·ali·ty (-jn-l-t), con·genial·ness n.
con·genial·ly adv.
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Noun1.congeniality - compatibility between persons
congenialness
compatibility - capability of existing or performing in harmonious or congenial combination
2.congeniality - a congenial disposition
friendliness - a friendly disposition
uncongeniality - a disposition not to be congenial
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I know not that any other author has hinted of the matter; but by inference it seems to me that the sturgeon must be divided in the same way as the whale, the King receiving the highly dense and elastic head peculiar to that fish, which, symbolically regarded, may possibly be humorously grounded upon some presumed congeniality.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
I had on more than one occasion got him out of scrapes into which this had led him; and I know not whether it was from this cause, or a certain congeniality of sentiment between us, that he had always shown a partiality for my society.
Typee by Melville, Herman View in context
As though accidents were determined to be favourable to it, they had a new assurance of congeniality in the aversion which each perceived that the other felt towards Blandois of Paris; an aversion amounting to the repugnance and horror of a natural antipathy towards an odious creature of the reptile kind.
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