Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. State; quality: abnormality.
Wiktionary
- n. Used to form a noun from an adjective; especially, to form the noun referring to the state, property, or quality of conforming to the adjective's description.
- n. Used to form other nouns, especially abstract nouns.
Etymologies
- From French -ité, from Middle French -ité, from Old French -ete, -eteit ("-ity"), from Latin -itātem, from -itās, from Proto-Indo-European *-it- (suffix). Cognate with Gothic -𐌹𐌸𐌰 (-iþa, "-th"), Old High German -ida ("-th"), Old English -þo, -þu, -þ ("-th"). More at -th. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English -itie, from Old French -ite, from Latin -itās, variant of -tās, -ty. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Nine years later a couple of mathematicians used an equally logical extension of normal, preferring -cy to -ity.”
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“When mocked by users of -ity, the president told his critics to look it up in the dictionary—and there it was, in Merriam-Webster’s.”
Simon & Schuster: The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
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suffixes, affixes, prefixes added onto words to explain the present/past/future happening.
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Morphemes
morphemes greek and latin prefixes, suffixes and roots.
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