-icity
Syllables: -ic·i·ty/ɪs.ɪ.ti/
-icity suffix: 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
-icity
Origin of -icity
From -ic + -ity.
Words formed from -icity
- apricity
- biplicity
- Cantabrigicity
- delicity
- duplicity
- febricity
- felicity
- immundicity
- infelicity
- insimplicity
- 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
Questions about -icity
- What does -icity mean?
- -icity means 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)).
- What part of speech is -icity?
- -icity is a suffix.
- How do you pronounce -icity?
- -icity is pronounced /ɪs.ɪ.ti/.
Words near -icity in the dictionary
Source and license
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