THE FIRST WORD

concinnity

PRONUNCIATION:

(kuhn-SIN-i-tee) 

MEANING:

noun: A harmonious arrangement of various parts.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin concinnare (to put in order). Earliest documented use: 1531.

USAGE:

"There was a moment of inner peace in which belief and doubt merged into a strangely comforting concinnity."
Thomas Dulski; To Emily on the Ecliptic; Analog Science Fiction & Fact; Jul/Aug 2004.