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词汇 concinnity
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Definition of concinnity in English:

concinnity

noun kənˈsɪnɪtikənˈsinədē
mass nounrare
  • 1The skilful and harmonious arrangement or fitting together of the different parts of something.

    〈罕〉(不同部分的)巧妙而协调的安排,妥帖安排

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Chronic impatience for getting to the "bottom line" or to "the point" dulls sensitivity to what concinnity stands for.
    • This presentation reviews the arguments for comprehensive integration, but advances a contrasting Christian view, that as all knowledge was designed by the Creator as a connected, discoverable, integrated whole, it is already a "concinnity".
    • For a half-century, some version of this integrated vision, with its logical progression and simple concinnity - shuttle to station, station to ship, and thence to the planets!
    • That geologic concinnity's taste is what we know and who we are.
    1. 1.1 Studied elegance of literary or artistic style.
      (文体或艺术风格的)优美,雅致
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Generally the higher the art, the higher the degree of concinnity.
      • No mall store could create a thing of such simple, fragile concinnity.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from Latin concinnitas, from concinnus 'skilfully put together'.

Definition of concinnity in US English:

concinnity

nounkənˈsinədē
rare
  • 1The skillful and harmonious arrangement or fitting together of the different parts of something.

    〈罕〉(不同部分的)巧妙而协调的安排,妥帖安排

    Example sentencesExamples
    • This presentation reviews the arguments for comprehensive integration, but advances a contrasting Christian view, that as all knowledge was designed by the Creator as a connected, discoverable, integrated whole, it is already a "concinnity".
    • For a half-century, some version of this integrated vision, with its logical progression and simple concinnity - shuttle to station, station to ship, and thence to the planets!
    • Chronic impatience for getting to the "bottom line" or to "the point" dulls sensitivity to what concinnity stands for.
    • That geologic concinnity's taste is what we know and who we are.
    1. 1.1 Studied elegance of literary or artistic style.
      (文体或艺术风格的)优美,雅致
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Generally the higher the art, the higher the degree of concinnity.
      • No mall store could create a thing of such simple, fragile concinnity.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from Latin concinnitas, from concinnus ‘skillfully put together’.

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