technicities

Noun

technicity (plural technicities)

1. The efficacy, functionality, or experience of a particular technology.
   • The ramjet is well placed to answer this^([sic]) new functions, as it is simple, inexpensive, that its technicity is well known, and its consumption is five to six times less than that of the rocket motor.1975, DGLR-Fachbuchreihe, number 6, page 864
2. The prevalence of or reliance upon (a particular) technology by a specific group of people or by humanity as a whole.
   • The consequence of assuming that the outstanding characteristic of the modern planetary order is its technicity (rather than the existence of a global market) is that an unnecessary stress is laid on the relationship (treated, possibly correctly, as radically distorted) between the individual and...1998, Nicholas Boyle, Who Are We Now?: Christian Humanism and the Global Market from Hegel to Heaney, University of Notre Dame Press, →ISBN, page 218