email_body: cecity (SEE-si-tee) noun     Blindness.
  [From Latin caecitas, from caecus (blind).]
  "I mean that my love for you, which cries out for a physical expression    you tolerate brutishly, induces a cecity to your inefficiency and your    bad behavior."
  Earthly Powers, Anthony Burgess, 1980.
  It's that time of the year again, the time when we feature odds-and-ends.
  One-of-a-kind words.
  Words that are unusual, picturesque, whimsical, esoteric, or intriguing.
  And like all the creatures in this world, these words serve a purpose (as shown by the accompanying citations).
  They make our verbal universe richer and more diverse.
  So here they are.
  We've coaxed them out of the dictionary -- it's not often that one finds them in the
  
subject_line: A.Word.A.Day--cecity
  