kənˈgrüəd.ē, känˈ-, käŋˈ- noun
( -es )
Etymology: Middle English congruite, from Middle French congruité, from Late Latin congruitat-, congruitas, from Latin congruus + itat-, -itas -ity
1. : the quality or state of agreeing or coinciding (as one with another or with something referred to) : conformity , correspondence
congruity of thought and action
the congruity of God's law with natural law
2.
a. : suitability , appropriateness : inner harmony : agreement or accordance of the parts of a whole
we can … judge the coherence and congruity of its language — C.D.Lewis
a spot which returned upon the memory of those who loved it with an aspect of peculiar and kindly congruity — Thomas Hardy
b. obsolete : natural aptitude or fitness (as for one's work)
3. : merit described in scholastic theology as granted through divine generosity : merit given rather than earned or given in excess of that which is earned — distinguished from condignity
4. : an instance or point of agreement or correspondence
the occasional congruities between fact and prophecy
5. obsolete : correspondence in physical structure or substance tending to promote union or mixture