-ity

(Latin: suffix used to form abstract nouns expressing act, state, quality, property, or condition corresponding to an adjective)


infinity (in FIN uh tee)
1. Unlimited space, time, distance, quantity, etc.; lacking limits or bounds; extending beyond any measure or comprehension; without beginning or end; endless: "Beyond the Earth we find infinity."
2. Very great; vast; immense: such as, space or time: "Space provides an infinity of stars."
3. In mathematics, the concept of being unlimited by always being larger than any imposed value or boundary: "Infinity exists beyond or is greater than any arbitrarily large value."
4. In photography, a distance setting, as on a camera, beyond which the entire field is in focus: "She set the lens on her camera to inifinity so objects at a distance would be in focus."
inhumanity
1. Lack of pity or compassion.
2. An inhuman or cruel act.
insanity
insensibility
Lacking physical sensation or feeling; a lack of moral sensibility or emotion.
insipidity
Lacking a strong taste or character, or lacking interest or energy.
instability
The quality or attribute of being unstable to function properly and to being irresolute; unreliability.
integrity
1. Firm adherence to a code or standard of values; priority.
2. The state of being unimpaired; soundness.
3. The quality or condition of being undivided; completeness.
intrepidity
1. Fearlessness; firmness of mind in the presence of danger; courage, boldness.
2. Resolutely courageous; fearless.
jollity
Latinity
laxity
1. A condition or fact of not being strict or careful enough.
2. Looseness; slackness, lacking in tension (in the muscular or nervous fibers, etc.).
3. Looseness of texture or cohesion; openness, uncompact structure or arrangement.
4. Looseness or slackness in the moral and intellectual spheres; lack of firmness, strictness, or precision.
5. Slackness or displacement (whether normal or abnormal) in the motion of a joint.
legality
1. Attachment to or observance of law or rule.
2. In theology, insistence on the letter of the law; reliance on works for salvation, rather than on free grace.
3. The spirit or way of thinking characteristic of the legal profession; pl. points of manner or speech indicative of this.
4. The quality of being legal or in conformity with the law; lawfulness. In early use, legitimacy.
leprosity
The state or quality of being leprous or scaly; also, a scale.
linguacity
Loquacity; talkative, tending to talk a great deal.
loquacity
The condition or quality of being loquacious; talkativeness.

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