The quality of being sweet or pleasing to the mind; agreeableness; pleasantness
suavity of manners
Sweetness or agreeableness to the senses, especially of taste and odour.
Whan this ſayd monument diſcouered was / Suche a ſuauite and fragrant odoure / Aſcended from the corps by ſingular grace / Paſſyng all worldly ſwetnes and ſauour / That all there present that day and hour / Suppoſed they had ben / in the felicite / Of erthely paradiſe / without ambiguite.
From Middle English suavite, suavitee, suavyte, from Middle French suavité and its etymon Latin suāvitās.
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