# -icity
## English
### Etymology

-ic + -ity

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɪs.ɪ.ti/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Suffix

-icity
* Used to form nouns, denoting a quality or condition, from adjectives, especially ones ending in -ic (in which case "ic" is not duplicated (see -ity)).
    ‎Italian + ‎-icity → ‎Italianicity
    ‎electric + ‎-icity → ‎electricity

#### Derived terms

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* apricity
* biplicity
* Cantabrigicity
* delicity
* duplicity
* febricity
* felicity
* immundicity
* infelicity
* insimplicity
* achromaticity
* acoustoelectricity
* adiabaticity
* adicity
* aeroelasticity
* Afrocentricity
* alcoholicity
* allergenicity
* allotropicity
* amphiphilicity
* amphoricity
* analyticity
* androcentricity
* androgenicity
* Anglicity
* Anglocentricity
* anharmonicity
* anthropocentricity
* antigenicity
* apostolicity
* aromaticity
* asphericity
* atomicity
* atonicity
* authenticity
* automaticity
* autopticity
* baroclinicity
* basicity
* bioelectricity
* caloricity
* canonicity
* carcinogenicity
* cariogenicity
* catholicity
* causticity
* Celticity
* centricity
* cerebricity
* Christocentricity
* chromaticity
* chronicity
* clastogenicity
* clericity
* climaticity
* complicity
* concentricity
* conicity
* cubicity
* cylindricity
* diabolicity
* dibasicity
* didacticity
* domesticity
* dynamicity
* eccentricity
* eclipticity
* ecotoxicity
* ecumenicity
* egocentricity
* Egypticity
* elasticity
* electricity
* electrogenicity
* electrotonicity
* ellipticity
* embryotoxicity
* endemicity
* endothermicity
* ensynopticity
* epidemicity
* episodicity
* ergodicity
* ethericity
* ethnicity
* ethnocentricity
* eupepticity
* Eurocentricity
* evangelicity
* exothermicity
* facticity
* feminicity
* ferroelectricity
* fungitoxicity
* gastricity
* genotoxicity
* gnosticity
* Gothicity
* helicity
* heliocentricity
* hepatotoxicity
* heroicity
* heteroscedasticity
* historicity
* homocentricity
* homopathicity
* homoscedasticity
* hydraulicity
* hydroelectricity
* hydrophilicity
* hydrophobicity
* hygroscopicity
* hyperchromicity
* hypertonicity
* hypochromicity
* hypotonicity
* iconicity
* idiomaticity
* illogicity
* illustricity
* immunogenicity
* implasticity
* implicity
* impudicity
* inauthenticity
* inelasticity
* inhistoricity
* ionicity
* isotacticity
* isotonicity
* laicity
* lubricity
* lymphocytotoxicity
* lysogenicity
* magnetoelasticity
* magnetoelectricity
* matricentricity
* mendicity
* metallicity
* metaphoricity
* microplasticity
* microseismicity
* mitogenicity
* modicity
* monatomicity
* monochromaticity
* monogenicity
* monophasicity
* monophonematicity
* monospecificity
* monosyllabicity
* monotonicity
* Mosaicity
* motricity
* multiplicity
* mutagenicity
* mycotoxicity
* myelinotoxicity
* myoelectricity
* myonicity
* mysticity
* nephrotoxicity
* neuricity
* neuroelectricity
* neurotoxicity
* nonelasticity
* nonpathogenicity
* nonspecificity
* nordicity
* nucleophilicity
* nullibicity
* oceanicity
* oestrogenicity
* oncogenicity
* opticity
* organicity
* ototoxicity
* oxicity
* oxygentoxicity
* pacificity
* paratonicity
* pathogenicity
* patricentricity
* pentadicity
* pepticity
* periodicity
* perlicity
* pernicity
* phallocentricity
* phoenicity
* phonemicity
* phonocentricity
* photochromicity
* photoelasticity
* photoelectricity
* photoperiodicity
* phototoxicity
* phytopathogenicity
* phytotoxicity
* piezoelectricity
* plasticity
* pneumaticity
* poikilosmoticity
* poleofverticity
* polyadicity
* polybasicity
* polycentricity
* polysemanticity
* polysyllabicity
* polysystemicity
* ponticity
* pozzolanicity
* priceelasticity
* prolificity
* pseudoplasticity
* publicity
* pudicity
* pyrogenicity
* quadruplicity
* quantuplicity
* radicity
* radiotoxicity
* randomicity
* regiospecificity
* rhoticity
* rhythmicity
* robusticity
* RomanCatholicity
* romanticity
* rubricity
* rusticity
* saprobicity
* scepticity
* scientificity
* seismicity
* semanticity
* septicity
* sigmoidicity
* simplicity
* spasticity
* specificity
* sphericity
* spheroidicity
* stereospecificity
* stochasticity
* stoicity
* stypticity
* superhelicity
* superplasticity
* syllabicity
* sympatheticity
* synchronicity
* syndiotacticity
* synecticity
* systematicity
* tacticity
* teratogenicity
* tetricity
* theocentricity
* thermoelectricity
* thermoplasticity
* tithonicity
* tolerogenicity
* tonicity
* toxicity
* toxigenicity
* transhistoricity
* triboelectricity
* triplicity
* tumorigenicity
* Turcocentricity
* tympanicity
* ubicity
* unauthenticity
* uncatholicity
* unelasticity
* unicity
* unsimplicity
* urotoxicity
* vasculotoxicity
* veridicity
* verticity
* viscoelasticity
* volcanicity
* vorticity
* vulcanicity

#### Related terms

* -ability
* -hood
* -ia
* -ibility
* -itas (Latin)
* -itia (Latin)
* -itude
* -ity
* -ness
* -ose
* -osity
* -ous
* -ship
* -th

### References

* English Words with Native Roots and with Greek, Latin, or Romance Suffixes, George Albert Nicholson (University of Chicago Press, 1916), page 12: lists "-icity" as a foreign suffix "Goth" has taken
* The unmaking of Soviet Life, Caroline Humphrey (2002), page 226: "Barthes (1985, 37) points out that the advertisement does not just give the message that the product is Italian; it evokes "Italianicity". The suffix -icity serves to produce an abstract substantive from an adjective. "Italianicity is not Italy; it is the condensed essence of all that can be Italian, from spaghetti to painting." A similar mythicizing effect is produced in Russian in political discourse by adding the suffix -shchina to a proper name."
* The Etymological Reader, Epes Sargent and Amasa May (1872), Suffixes of English Words, page 37: "-ACITY, -ICITY, -OCITY, n., the state of having, etc., signified by the above suffixes, -aceous, etc.; as, veracity, duplicity, ferocity."