concinnity

noun·/kənˈsɪn.ɪ.ti/

Elegant harmony of arrangement, parts fitted to one another with such aptness that the whole seems inevitable (literary; rhetorical). Concinnity implies a felt rightness, proportion made persuasive.

The essay’s concinnity was what moved her most—every sentence placed as if it had always belonged there.

Etymology

From Latin concinnitās “skillful arrangement, harmony,” from concinnus “neat, well put together.” The word has always been about craft: beauty not as accident, but as exact fitting.

Related Words

proportiona structural ingredient of concinnity
euphonyharmonious sound; a sonic cousin
coherencelogical fittedness; less aesthetic
aptitudethe skill that produces such fitting