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suavity

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suav⋅i⋅ty

  [swah-vi-tee, swav-i-]
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–noun, plural -ties.
1. a suave or smoothly agreeable quality.
2. suavities, suave or courteous actions or manners; amenities.
Also, suaveness.

Origin:
1400–50; late ME < L suāvitās pleasantness, equiv. to suāv(is) sweet + -itās -ity
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suave   (swäv)   
adj.   suav·er, suav·est
Smoothly agreeable and courteous.

[French, agreeable, from Old French, from Latin suāvis, delightful, sweet; see swād- in Indo-European roots.]
suave'ly adv., suave'ness, suav'i·ty (swä'vĭ-tē) n.
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