urbanicity

Noun

urbanicity (usually uncountable, plural urbanicities)

1. (usually) The quality or fact of (an area) being urban.
   • The risk of psychotic disorder in the population exposed to urbanicity alone was 1.59% (31/1946), the risk in those exposed to family history, broadly defined, alone was 3.01% ...
   • Thus, between 60% and 70% of the individuals exposed to both urbanicity and family history had developed psychotic disorder because of the synergistic action of the two proxy causes.1997, Waltina Scheumann, Managing Salinization: Institutional Analysis of Public Irrigation Systems
2. (usually) The degree to which a given geographical area is urban.
   • To assess this hypothesis, the urbanicity of a boy's place of residence was run against enlistment.1972, Jerome Johnston, Jerald Bachman, Young Men and Military Service
   • 2002: Heinz Häfner (ed), Risk and Protective Factors in Schizophrenia: Towards a Conceptual Model of the Disease Process
     A number of studies have associated urbanicity at birth or upbringing with schizophrenia risk.