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Harmonious vs Congenial - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between harmonious and congenial

is that harmonious is showing accord in feeling or action while congenial is having the same or very similar nature, personality, tastes, habits or interests.

harmonious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Showing accord in feeling or action.
  • Having components pleasingly or appropriately combined.
  • Melodious; in harmony.

    • Derived terms

    * harmoniously * harmoniousness

    See also

    * disharmonious

    congenial

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having the same or very similar nature, personality, tastes, habits or interests.
  • Friendly or sociable.
    • The congenial bartender makes the Hog’s Head an inviting place to hang out during the weekends.
  • 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:
    • ''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?

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