-acity

(Latin: a suffix; quality of)

A suffix that forms nouns of quality or state. There are hundreds of other -acity suffixes; however, the following will present significant examples.


inveracity
linguacity
Loquacity; talkative, tending to talk a great deal.
loquacity
The condition or quality of being loquacious; talkativeness.
mendacity (s), mendacities (pl)
1. The quality of being mendacious; or the tendency or disposition to lie or to deceive.
2. Habitual lying or deceiving.
omnivoracity
1. Having an eagerness to consume great amounts of all kinds of food; ravenous.
2. Having or marked by an insatiable appetite for all activities or pursuits; greedy: "She had an omnivoracity which could not be satisfied."
3. Boundless greed for all things: an omnivoracity for history; a gluttonous consumer of fine foods; a rapacious acquirer of competing businesses; a politician who is ravenous for power.
opacity
1. The state of being opaque (not allowing the passage of light); unperceptive, dense.
2. On a radiograph, a more transparent area is interpreted as an opacity to x-rays in the body.
3. Mental dullness.
orchidacity
perspicacity
1. Keenness of sight; clearness of understanding or insight; penetration, discernment.
2. Acuteness of discernment or perception.
pertinacity
pervicacity
pugnacity
1. The desire to start an argument or fight.
2. Expressing an argument or opinion very forcefully.
rapacity
sagacity
Acuteness of mental discernment; aptitude for investigation or discovery; keenness and soundness of judgement in the estimation of persons and conditions, and in the adaptation of means to ends; penetration, shrewdness.
salacity
The quality or condition of being salacious; lustfulness, lecherousness, sexual wantonness.
saponacity
The quality or state of being saponaceous.

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