Word.ws English Dictionary

caninity

caninity noun: the state of being canine.

Noun

caninity (usually uncountable, plural caninities)

  1. (usually) The state of being canine.
  2. (usually) The quality or feature characteristic of a dog.
    • Just as people have different personalities so we have different caninities and, according to scientists, they fall into four basic types […]1995, Chapman Pincher, My Life as a Real Dog

Synonyms of caninity

Forms of caninity

pluralcaninities

Origin of caninity

From canine + -ity.

Questions about caninity

What does caninity mean?
Caninity means the state of being canine.
What part of speech is caninity?
Caninity is a noun.
What is the plural of caninity?
The plural of caninity is caninities.

Words near caninity in the dictionary

  1. canini
  2. caninicide
  3. caniniform
  4. caniniforms
  5. caninities
  6. caninity
  7. caninization
  8. caninize
  9. caninized
  10. caninizes
  11. caninizing

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: caninity (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “caninity.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/caninity. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.