Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A compound suffix of Latin origin, also in reduced form -alty, as in reality, realty, legality, loyalty, etc. See -al and -ity, -ty.
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Examples
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He bored everyone around him and eventually became a joke as he added 'ality' to everything he said...financeality, contentmentality, acquisitionality...he just went on and on while we pissed ourselves laughing.
Apple announces record profits of $6bn as Steve Jobs hails 'phenomenal' sales
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The box which makes a whirring noise next to me I bought second hand two years ago, and please don't add 'ality' to the end of words.
Apple announces record profits of $6bn as Steve Jobs hails 'phenomenal' sales
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The other, Alexandra/Tatiana, is a tortured cipher who nevertheless shows glimpses of a specific person/ality buried in the cliché.
Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: The Circus Ringmaster: John le Carré
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The other, Alexandra/Tatiana, is a tortured cipher who nevertheless shows glimpses of a specific person/ality buried in the cliché.
Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: The Circus Ringmaster: John le Carré
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The title is unnecessarily contentious; this is actually a brilliantly clear summary of the philosophical complications involved in sorting out what we know— and can know—about consciousness, intention ality and self-awareness in animals.
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And Jojohn went and woke up Wall, and Wall was only too ready to swear that it was Your Humble Narrator that had done the real dirty tolchocking and brut - ality.
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Design your ideal smoothie and find out your Kefir-ality here
Leslie Goldman: The Flat Belly Food You Don't Know About: Kefir
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Chima, who was an eviction nominee and needed to take it seriously and win, revealed a rack that said: "Super ality."
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"So Tyra sent me over here so I can talk about person - ality which I have a lot of and that's what you're gonna need when you're in this business," she advises cheerfully.
Holly Cara Price: Rubbernecking: America's Next Top Model, Week Four
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Venezuela has seen so many colors in its history where a predominance of the one or the other has had sad results on the whole ... like last month's Plasticine ... where a truly democratic society appreciates and values all colors as valid towards a concensus-ality that ultimately is the issue of true democracy.
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