-ity

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


amity, amities
Peaceful relations, as between nations; friendship.
amortality
In the state or act of death; lifeless, inanimate; figuratively spiritless, dejected.
amphoricity
The quality or condition of being amphoric or productive of amphoric sounds.
androgenicity
The quality of exerting a masculinizing or virilizing action or effect; a property of androgenic hormones.
animality
1. The characteristics of animals as opposed to plants.
2. Relating to the physical, or non-rational, as distinct from the spiritual nature of humans.
animosity
1. A feeling or spirit of hostility and resentment.
2. Having a mentality of animalistic dislike or hatred for others or for one's situation.

Animosity originally meant animation, spirit, as the fire of a horse, called in Latin equi animositas. Its present exclusive use in a bad sense is an instance of the tendency by which words originally neutral have come to assume a bad meaning.

Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
A man exhibits animosity or hatred to the extent that he is like an animal monster.
An extreme example of animosity with elements of animalistic psychosis.

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annuity
anonymity
1. The state of not being known or identified by name, e.g., as the author or donor of something.
2. A lack of distinctive features that makes things seem bland or interchangeable.
3. Someone who is unnamed or unacknowledged as the doer of something.
4. The state of blending into a crowd and going unnoticed.
anthropocentric, anthropocentrality
1. Regarding humankind as the most important factor in the universe.
2. Relating to the belief that humans are the center of the universe.
3. Regarding, or interpreting, natural events or conditions in terms of human values.
3. Evaluating all occurrences in nature or the universe solely by human values.
All mankind is divided into three classes:

Those who are immovable;
Those who are movable; and
Those who move.
—Benjamin Franklin
antifertility
antiquity
aquosity
1. The state of being watery.
2. The quality or state of being moist or wet; moisture.
assiduity
1. Great care and attention in doing something.
2. Persistent application or diligence; unflagging effort.
3. Constant personal attention and often obsequious solicitude.
audacity
1. Boldness, fearless daring, intrepidity; confidence.
2. Boldness which is combined with disregard for the consequences; venturesomeness, rashness, recklessness.
3. Open disregard of the restraints of decorum or morality; effrontery, impudence, shamelessness.
4. Aggressive boldness or unmitigated effrontery: "She had the audacity to challenge my decision."
autoimmunity
1. An immune state in which antibodies are formed against the person's own body tissues.
2. Antibody production by an organism in response to and against any of its own tissues.

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