-icity

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)).

Suffix

  1. 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)).
    • Italian + -icity → Italianicity
    • electric + -icity → electricity

Origin

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English -icity From -ic + -ity.

Related

-ability -hood -ia -ibility -itas -itia -itude -ity -ness -ose -osity -ous -ship -th

Derived

apricity biplicity Cantabrigicity delicity duplicity febricity felicity immundicity infelicity insimplicity achromaticity acoustoelectricity adiabaticity adicity aeroelasticity Afrocentricity alcoholicity allergenicity allotropicity amphiphilicity amphoricity analyticity androcentricity androgenicity