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sublimity

sublimity noun: the quality or state of being sublime.

Noun

sublimity (countable and uncountable, plural sublimities)

  1. (uncountable) The quality or state of being sublime.
    • The frantic father struts the stage, / And swells with true sublimity of rage / Against his son, who leads a wanton life, / And scorns the offer of a dowried wife.1838, Horace, “Satire IV”, in David Hunter, transl., The Satires and Epistles of Horace, London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], →OCLC, book I, pages 20–21, lines 63–66
    Synonyms:
    sublime, sublimeness
  2. (countable) Something sublime.
    Synonyms:
    sublime

sublimity meaning in Tamil

sublimity in Tamil

உக்கம், விழுப்பம்

Synonyms of sublimity

Forms of sublimity

pluralsublimities

Origin of sublimity

From Middle English sublimite, sublimitee, from Middle French sublimité and/or Latin sublīmitās. By surface analysis, sublime + -ity.

Questions about sublimity

What does sublimity mean?
Sublimity means the quality or state of being sublime.
What is sublimity in Tamil?
Sublimity in Tamil is உக்கம், விழுப்பம். See Sublimity meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is sublimity?
Sublimity is a noun.
What is the plural of sublimity?
The plural of sublimity is sublimities.

Words near sublimity in the dictionary

  1. sublimit
  2. sublimitation
  3. sublimitations
  4. sublimities
  5. sublimits
  6. sublimity
  7. sublimize
  8. sublimized
  9. sublimizes
  10. sublimizing
  11. sublimnic

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sublimity (page history and authors); sublimity (Tamil Wiktionary) (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.

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