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archaicity

/ɑː(ɹ)keɪˈɪsɪti/

archaicity noun: the quality of being archaic.

Noun

archaicity (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being archaic.
    • Most importantly perhaps, it is evident that the impression of archaicity which any reader will experience on reading The Lord of the Rings is partly due to three simple lexical causes: the “overuse” of words borrowed from nineteenth-century fiction (e.g. yonder, journey [v], topmost), the...2021, Thomas Kullmann and Dirk Siepmann, Tolkien as a Literary Artist: Exploring Rhetoric, Language and Style in The Lord of the Rings, Palgrave-Macmillan 2021

Origin of archaicity

From archaic + -ity.

Questions about archaicity

What does archaicity mean?
Archaicity means the quality of being archaic.
What part of speech is archaicity?
Archaicity is a noun.
How do you pronounce archaicity?
Archaicity is pronounced /ɑː(ɹ)keɪˈɪsɪti/.

Words near archaicity in the dictionary

  1. archaicised
  2. archaicises
  3. archaicising
  4. archaicism
  5. archaicisms
  6. archaicity
  7. archaicize
  8. archaicized
  9. archaicizes
  10. archaicizing
  11. archaick

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