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concinnity

noun

  1. The harmonious reinforcement of the various parts of a work of art.

    countable, uncountable

    In the Terminology, or what, to avoid the barbarism of a word compounded of Latin and Greek, they would beg to call the Orismology of the science, they have endeavoured to introduce throughout a greater degree of precision and concinnity—dividing it into general and partial Orismology; […]

Where it comes from

Coined 1531 by Sir Thomas Elyot in his treatise, The Boke Named The Governor, from Latin concinnitās (“skillfully put together”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry concinnity (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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