[f. prec. + -ITY. Cf. L. geniālitās joviality, festivity.] The quality of being congenial; affinity of genius or disposition; agreeableness to one’s nature or tastes.
1620. Wotton, in Reliq. Wotton. (1672), 299. The pride that I take in a certain Congeniality (as I may term it) with your Lordships studies. Ibid. (1624), Archit. (T.). Painters and poets have alwayes had a kind of congeniality.
1791. Boswell, Johnson, 26 March, an. 1776. I could not perceive in his character much congeniality of any sort with that of Johnson.
1826. Disraeli, Viv. Grey, VI. iii. There is no congeniality in our tastes or in our tempers.
1880. L. Stephen, Pope, viii. 185. There is so much congeniality between Horace and Pope.
