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1,264 words match “CITY”

MENDACITY n. 2 definitions
The quality or state of being mendacious; a habit of lying. Macaulay.
MENDICITY n.
The practice of begging; the life of a beggar; mendicancy. Rom. of R.
MINACITY n.
Disposition to threaten. [R.]
MODICITY n.
Moderateness; smallness; meanness. [Obs.]
MORDACITY n.
The quality of being mordacious; biting severity, or sarcastic quality. Bacon.
MULTIPLICITY n.
f being multiple, manifold, or various; a state of being many; a multitude; as, a multiplicity of thoughts or objects. "A multiplicity of goods." South.
NEUROCITY n.
Nerve force.
NUGACITY n.
Futility; trifling talk or behavior; drollery. [R.] Dr. H. More.
OPACITY n. 2 definitions
The state of being opaque; the quality of a body which renders it impervious to the rays of light; want of transparency; opaqueness.
PARCITY n.
Sparingless. [Obs.]
PAUCITY n. 2 definitions
Fewness; smallness of number; scarcity. Hooker. Revelation denies it by the stern reserve, the paucity, and the incompleteness, of its communications. I. Taylor.
PERIODICITY n.
The quality or state of being periodical, or regularly recurrent; as, the periodicity in the vital phenomena of plants. Henfrey.
PERNICITY n.
Swiftness; celerity. [R.] Ray.
PERSPICACITY n.
The state of being perspicacious; acuteness of sight or of intelligence; acute discernment. Sir T. Browne.
PERTINACITY n.
The quality or state of being pertinacious; obstinacy; perseverance; persistency. Macaulay.
PERVICACITY n.
Obstinacy; pervicaciousness. [Obs.] Bentley.
PETULCITY n.
Wantonness; friskiness. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
PHOTO-ELECTRICITY n.
Electricity produced by light.
PLASTICITY n. 2 definitions
The quality or state of being plastic.
PNEUMATICITY n.
te of being pneumatic, or of having a cavity or cavities filled with air; as, the pneumaticity of the bones of birds.
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