-ity
(Latin: suffix used to form abstract nouns expressing act, state, quality, property, or condition corresponding to an adjective)
insanity
1. The lack of physical sensations or consciousness: Cara fell to the ground, hit her head, and consequently was lying in a state of insensibility.
2. Unawareness of or unresponsiveness to something: Trevor experienced amnesia and a state of insensibility to the voices of his wife and daughter.
2. Unawareness of or unresponsiveness to something: Trevor experienced amnesia and a state of insensibility to the voices of his wife and daughter.
insipidity
Lacking a strong taste or character, or lacking interest or energy.
1. The quality or attribute of being insecure in functioning properly and to being irresolute; unreliability: Such issues as racial problems, economics, the concentration or density of population, and family instabilities can lead to violence and bloodshed.
2. A disposition toward unpredictable conduct or irregular changes in one's state of mind: The older Aunt Jane got, the more mental instability she showed and therefore had to have help in her home.
2. A disposition toward unpredictable conduct or irregular changes in one's state of mind: The older Aunt Jane got, the more mental instability she showed and therefore had to have help in her home.
1. A firm adherence to a code or standard of values: James was always striving to behave and have an integrity that people trusted and respected.
2. The state of being unimpaired and physically sound: Architects should make sure they provide excellent structural integrity in their constructions or buildings so that they don't fall down!
3. The quality or condition of being undivided, a completeness: The territorial integrity, goodness, and reputability of all nations would be respected within that nation and by the other nations in the world.
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2. The state of being unimpaired and physically sound: Architects should make sure they provide excellent structural integrity in their constructions or buildings so that they don't fall down!
3. The quality or condition of being undivided, a completeness: The territorial integrity, goodness, and reputability of all nations would be respected within that nation and by the other nations in the world.
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Fearlessness; firmness of mind in the presence of danger; courage and boldness: When Susan went bungy-jumping, she showed a significant amount of intrepidity.
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.
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.
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.
Loquacity; the state of being very talkative: Little Ivy was just beginning to communicate with understandable words and babbled along the whole day, and her linguacity was enjoyed very much by her parents!
The condition or quality of being loquacious; talkativeness: Because of Lynn's loquacity, there was never a dull moment at the dinner party.
The quality or condition of being bright, luminosity; now chiefly figuratively, intellectual clearness; transparency of thought or expression.
Mournfulness and despair: The underlying idea of lugubriosity seems to be of breaking down emotionally.
