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medievality

medievality noun: the quality of being medieval.

Noun

medievality (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being medieval.
    • His late wife ran a Victorian inn in upstate New York; his son grew up mimicking his father’s medievality and, shunning his contemporaries, devoted himself to early music; his mother-in-law is an ethnic Lemko from the Carpathians, intent on recreating the way of life her people lived before their...2008 January 27, Ken Kalfus, “Middle-Age Man”, in New York Times

Origin of medievality

From medieval + -ity.

Questions about medievality

What does medievality mean?
Medievality means the quality of being medieval.
What part of speech is medievality?
Medievality is a noun.

Words near medievality in the dictionary

  1. medievalisms
  2. medievalist
  3. medievalistic
  4. medievalistics
  5. medievalists
  6. medievality
  7. medievalize
  8. medievalized
  9. medievalizes
  10. medievalizing
  11. medievally

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