-icity
See also: -ičitý
English
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Suffix
-icity
- Used to form nouns, denoting a quality or condition, from adjectives, especially ones ending in -ic (in which case "ic" is not duplicated).
- Italian /ɪˈtæl.jən/ — Italianicity /ɪˈtæl.jən.ɪs.ɪ.ti/
- electric /ɪˈlɛk.tɹɪk/ — electricity /ˌiː.lekˈtrɪs.ɪ.ti/ (not /ɪˈlɛk.tɹɪk.ɪ.ti/, nor *electricicity /ɪˈlɛk.tɹɪkɪs.ɪ.ti/)
Derived terms
nouns that end in -icity without adjectives that end in -ic
nouns that end in -icity with corresponding adjectives that end in -ic
- achromaticity
- acoustoelectricity
- adiabaticity
- adicity
- aeroelasticity
- Afrocentricity
- alcoholicity
- allergenicity
- allotropicity
- amphiphilicity
- amphoricity
- analyticity
- androcentricity
- androgenicity
- Anglicity
- Anglocentricity
- anharmonicity
- anthropocentricity
- antigenicity
- apostolicity
- aromaticity
- asphericity
- atomicity
- atonicity
- authenticity
- automaticity
- autopticity
- baroclinicity
- basicity
- bioelectricity
- caloricity
- canonicity
- carcinogenicity
- cariogenicity
- catholicity
- causticity
- Celticity
- centricity
- cerebricity
- Christocentricity
- chromaticity
- chronicity
- clastogenicity
- clericity
- climaticity
- complicity
- concentricity
- conicity
- cubicity
- cylindricity
- diabolicity
- dibasicity
- didacticity
- domesticity
- dynamicity
- eccentricity
- eclipticity
- ecotoxicity
- ecumenicity
- egocentricity
- Egypticity
- elasticity
- electricity
- electrogenicity
- electrotonicity
- ellipticity
- embryotoxicity
- endemicity
- endothermicity
- ensynopticity
- epidemicity
- episodicity
- ergodicity
- ethericity
- ethnicity
- ethnocentricity
- eupepticity
- Eurocentricity
- evangelicity
- exothermicity
- facticity
- feminicity
- ferroelectricity
- fungitoxicity
- gastricity
- genotoxicity
- gnosticity
- Gothicity
- helicity
- heliocentricity
- hepatotoxicity
- heroicity
- heteroscedasticity
- historicity
- homocentricity
- homopathicity
- homoscedasticity
- hydraulicity
- hydroelectricity
- hydrophilicity
- hydrophobicity
- hygroscopicity
- hyperchromicity
- hypertonicity
- hypochromicity
- hypotonicity
- iconicity
- idiomaticity
- illogicity
- illustricity
- immunogenicity
- implasticity
- implicity
- impudicity
- inauthenticity
- inelasticity
- inhistoricity
- ionicity
- isotacticity
- isotonicity
- laicity
- lubricity
- lymphocytotoxicity
- lysogenicity
- magnetoelasticity
- magnetoelectricity
- matricentricity
- mendicity
- metallicity
- metaphoricity
- microplasticity
- microseismicity
- mitogenicity
- modicity
- monatomicity
- monochromaticity
- monogenicity
- monophasicity
- monophonematicity
- monospecificity
- monosyllabicity
- monotonicity
- Mosaicity
- motricity
- multiplicity
- mutagenicity
- mycotoxicity
- myelinotoxicity
- myoelectricity
- myonicity
- mysticity
- nephrotoxicity
- neuricity
- neuroelectricity
- neurotoxicity
- nonelasticity
- nonpathogenicity
- nonspecificity
- nordicity
- nucleophilicity
- nullibicity
- oceanicity
- oestrogenicity
- oncogenicity
- opticity
- organicity
- ototoxicity
- oxicity
- oxygentoxicity
- pacificity
- paratonicity
- pathogenicity
- patricentricity
- pentadicity
- pepticity
- periodicity
- perlicity
- pernicity
- phallocentricity
- phoenicity
- phonemicity
- phonocentricity
- photochromicity
- photoelasticity
- photoelectricity
- photoperiodicity
- phototoxicity
- phytopathogenicity
- phytotoxicity
- piezoelectricity
- plasticity
- pneumaticity
- poikilosmoticity
- poleofverticity
- polyadicity
- polybasicity
- polycentricity
- polysemanticity
- polysyllabicity
- polysystemicity
- ponticity
- pozzolanicity
- priceelasticity
- prolificity
- pseudoplasticity
- publicity
- pudicity
- pyrogenicity
- quadruplicity
- quantuplicity
- radicity
- radiotoxicity
- randomicity
- regiospecificity
- rhoticity
- rhythmicity
- robusticity
- RomanCatholicity
- romanticity
- rubricity
- rusticity
- saprobicity
- scepticity
- scientificity
- seismicity
- semanticity
- septicity
- sigmoidicity
- simplicity
- spasticity
- specificity
- sphericity
- spheroidicity
- stereospecificity
- stochasticity
- stoicity
- stypticity
- superhelicity
- superplasticity
- syllabicity
- sympatheticity
- synchronicity
- syndiotacticity
- synecticity
- systematicity
- tacticity
- teratogenicity
- tetricity
- theocentricity
- thermoelectricity
- thermoplasticity
- tithonicity
- tolerogenicity
- tonicity
- toxicity
- toxigenicity
- transhistoricity
- triboelectricity
- triplicity
- tumorigenicity
- Turcocentricity
- tympanicity
- ubicity
- unauthenticity
- uncatholicity
- unelasticity
- unicity
- unsimplicity
- urotoxicity
- vasculotoxicity
- veridicity
- verticity
- viscoelasticity
- volcanicity
- vorticity
- vulcanicity
Related terms
References
- English Words with Native Roots and with Greek, Latin, or Romance Suffixes, George Albert Nicholson (University of Chicago Press, 1916), page 12: lists "-icity" as a foreign suffix "Goth" has taken
- The unmaking of Soviet Life, Caroline Humphrey (2002), page 226: "Barthes (1985, 37) points out that the advertisement does not just give the message that the product is Italian; it evokes "Italianicity". The suffix -icity serves to produce an abstract substantive from an adjective. "Italianicity is not Italy; it is the condensed essence of all that can be Italian, from spaghetti to painting." A similar mythicizing effect is produced in Russian in political discourse by adding the suffix -shchina to a proper name."
- The Etymological Reader, Epes Sargent and Amasa May (1872), Suffixes of English Words, page 37: "-ACITY, -ICITY, -OCITY, n., the state of having, etc., signified by the above suffixes, -aceous, etc.; as, veracity, duplicity, ferocity."