Congenial vs Amenable - What's the difference?
congenial | amenable |
Having the same or very similar nature, personality, tastes, habits or interests.
Friendly or sociable.
Suitable to one's needs.
* 1961 , J. A. Philip, Mimesis in the ''Sophistês'' of Plato'', in ''Proceedings and Transactions of the American Philological Association 92 , page 453-468:
Willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions.
Willing to comply with; agreeable.
(math, of a group) Being a locally compact topological group carrying a kind of averaging operation on bounded functions that is invariant under translation by group elements.
As adjectives the difference between congenial and amenable
is that congenial is having the same or very similar nature, personality, tastes, habits or interests while amenable is willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions.congenial
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The congenial bartender makes the Hog’s Head an inviting place to hang out during the weekends.
- ''What was it that made this notion of mimesis, in spite of its inherent difficulties that only the dialectical method enables him to avoid, seem so useful and congenial to Plato?