gratuité
See also: gratuite
French
Pronunciation
Noun
gratuité f (plural gratuités)
- the quality of being provided gratis, of being free of charge
- La gratuité de l’école publique en France.
- The fact that public school is free of charge in France.
- the quality of being gratuitous (unwarranted or unjustified); gratuitousness
- La gratuité de son hypothèse affaiblit cette théorie.
- The gratuitousness of its hypothesis weakens this theory.
- the quality of being gratuitous (without necessity or reason); gratuitousness
- La gratuité de ce meurtre me rend malade.
- The gratuitousness of that murder makes me sick.
- La gratuité de l’art pour l’art.
- The gratuitousness of art for art's sake.
Usage notes
- Gratuité is a false friend and never a synonym for gratuity. (Its closest English equivalent would be the rare neologisms "gratisness", "free of chargeness", or "freeness of charge".)
Further reading
- “gratuité”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.