-ity
(Latin: suffix used to form abstract nouns expressing act, state, quality, property, or condition corresponding to an adjective)
historicity
1. Historical authenticity; fact.
2. The state or fact of being historically authentic.
3. Of or relating to the character of history.
4. Based on or concerned with events in history.
5. Used in the past: "historical costumes; historical weapons".
6. Important or famous in history.
histority
To record in or as history.
homogeneity
Similar throughout; of uniform structure or composition.
homozygosity
The state of possessing a pair of identical alleles at a given locus.
humanity
1. Human beings as a group.
2. The quality, condition, or fact of being human; humanness.
hyperacuity
The increased sharpness of sense perceptions.
hyperadiposis, hyperadiposity
An extreme degree of adiposis, or fatness.
hypoacidity
Deficiency of acid; lack of normal acidity, as of the gastric juice.
hypoacuity
Decreased sharpness of sense perception.
idiomaticity
The quality or state of being idiomatic.
inability
Lack of ability, capacity, means, or power.
inalterable, inalterability
1. Not capable of being changed or altered.
2. Impossible to alter; unchangeable.
incredulity
1. A disbelieving frame of mind; unreadiness or unwillingness to believe (statements, etc.); disbelief.
2. A state or feeling of disbelief.
There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
—Alfred Korzybski
inequilibrity
Lacking equilibrium; unbalanced.
infecundity
Unfruitfulness; barrenness; female sterility.
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