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calidity

calidity noun: heat.

Noun

calidity (usually uncountable, plural calidities)

  1. (obsolete, usually) Heat.
    • The queſtion is in vvhat part of this Serpent the poyſon doth lye; Some ſay in the head alone, and that therefore the Bazeliske is deafe, bycauſe the Ayre vvhich ſerueth the Organe of hearing, is reſolued by the intenſiue calidity: but this ſeemeth not to bee true, […]1608, Edward Topsell, “Of the Cockatrice”, in The Historie of Serpents. Or, The Second Booke of Liuing Creatures: […], London: […] William Jaggard, →OCLC, page 124

Forms of calidity

pluralcalidities

Origin of calidity

Borrowed from Latin caliditās, whence the Italian calidità. Compare calid.

Questions about calidity

What does calidity mean?
Calidity means heat.
What part of speech is calidity?
Calidity is a noun.
What is the plural of calidity?
The plural of calidity is calidities.

Words near calidity in the dictionary

  1. calid
  2. calidaria
  3. calidarium
  4. calidariums
  5. calidities
  6. calidity
  7. calidrid
  8. calidrids
  9. caliduct
  10. caliducts
  11. Calie

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