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-ičitý English Etymology en :af -ic -ity 1 + Pronunciation en /ɪs.ɪ.ti/ en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl--icity.wav Southern England en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl--icity.wav Southern England en -ic i ty Suffix productive suffixes Used to form nouns, denoting a quality or condition, from adjectives, especially ones ending in -ic (in which case "ic" is not duplicated (see -ity)). en Italian Italianicity en electric electricity Derived terms en en en nouns that end in -icity without adjectives that end in -ic apricity biplicity Cantabrigicity delicity duplicity febricity felicity immundicity infelicity insimplicity en 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 en -ness -hood -ship la:-itas -itude -th -ia la:-itia -ity -ability -ibility -osity -ous -ose 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."