Word.ws English Dictionary

sententiosities

sententiosities is the plural of sententiosity.

Meaning of sententiosity

Noun

sententiosity (usually uncountable, plural sententiosities)

  1. (obsolete, rare, usually) The quality or state of being sententious.
    • Noſce teipſum of Thales: Noſce tempus of Pittacus: Nihil nimis of Cleobulus; which notwithſtanding to ſpeake indifferently, are but vulgar precepts in Morality, carrying with them nothing above the lyne, or beyond the extemporall ſententioſity of common conceits with us.1646, Thomas Browne, “Of Adherence unto Antiquity”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC, 1st book, page 23

Questions about sententiosities

What is sententiosities the plural of?
Sententiosities is the plural of sententiosity.

Words near sententiosities in the dictionary

  1. sententiarians
  2. sententiaries
  3. sententiarist
  4. sententiarists
  5. sententiary
  6. sententiosities
  7. sententiosity
  8. sententious
  9. sententiously
  10. sententiousness
  11. Senter

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sententiosities (page history and authors); sententiosity (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: “sententiosities.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/sententiosities. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.