Congruity ( or , n.; pl. Congruities.
Etymology: [Cf. F. congruit.]
1. The state or quality of being congruous; the relation or agreement between things; fitness; harmony; correspondence; consistency. With what congruity doth the church of Rome deny that her enemies do at all appertain to the church of Christ Hooker. A whole sentence may fail of its congruity by wanting one particle. Sir P. Sidney.
2. (Geom.)
Coincidence, as that of lines or figures laid over one another.
3. (Scholastic Theol.)
1 more senses
That, in an imperfectly good persons, which renders it suitable for God to bestow on him gifts of grace.
Shades of meaning
Fernald has no entry of its own for congruity; he lists it under harmony.
Where he writes about it:
Congruity involves the element of suitableness; consistency implies the absence of conflict or contradiction in views, statements, or acts which are brought into comparison, as in the different statements of the same person or the different periods of one man's life; unanimity is the complete hearty agreement of many; consent and concurrence refer to decision or action, but consent is more passive than concurrence; one speaks by general consent when no one in the assembly cares to make formal objection; a decision of the Supreme Court depends upon the concurrence of a majority of the judges. — from harmony