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-ity¹

  • /əti/ UK
  • /ɪti/ UK
  • /əti/ Canada, US
  • [əɾi] Canada, US
  • [ɾi] Canada, US
  • /ɪti/ Canada, US
  • [ɪɾi] Canada, US
  • /əti/ Australia, New Zealand
  • [əɾi] Australia, New Zealand
  • /ɪʈi/ South Asia

Where it comes from

From Middle English -ite, -itee, from Old French -ite, -ete, -eteit (“-ity”), from Latin -itātem, from -itās, from Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts (suffix). Cognate with Gothic -𐌹𐌸𐌰 (-iþa, “-th”), Old High German -ida (“-th”), Old English -þo, -þu, -þ (“-th”). More at -th. By surface analysis, -i- (“connecting vowel”) + -ty.

suffix -ities · -ty · ⠰⠽

  1. countable, morpheme, uncountable Used to form an uncountable noun from an adjective; especially, to form the noun referring to the state, property, or quality of conforming to the adjective's description. absurd + -ity → absurdity (“the quality of being absurd or inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound judgment”)
  2. countable, morpheme, uncountable Used to form a countable noun from an adjective, referring to someone or something that conforms to the adjective's description. absurd + -ity → [an] absurdity (“that which is absurd; an absurd action; a logical contradiction”)
  3. countable, morpheme, uncountable Used to form other nouns, especially abstract nouns.

-ity²

  • /əti/ UK
  • /ɪti/ UK
  • /əti/ Canada, US
  • [əɾi] Canada, US
  • [ɾi] Canada, US
  • /ɪti/ Canada, US
  • [ɪɾi] Canada, US
  • /əti/ Australia, New Zealand
  • [əɾi] Australia, New Zealand
  • /ɪʈi/ South Asia

Where it comes from

Variant of -ety, likely an alteration of -edy, equivalent to -ed + -y.

suffix

  1. alternative, morpheme Alternative form of -ety hip + -ity → hippity, hippity-hop

Translations

Every language

suffix Used to form nouns from adjectives.

Español-idad, -edad, -dad
한국어성 seong
日本語性 sei
中文性 xìng
Kiswahiliu-
Português-idade, -dade
Français-ité, -té
Deutsch-ität
Italiano-ità
Ελληνικά-ότητα -ótita
Română-itate, -tate, -ătate, -eață, -ețe, -ie
Русский-ность -nostʹ, -ите́т -itét, -ство -stvo
עברית־וּת -ut

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Chicago

"-ity." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/-ity.

BibTeX
@misc{ity_2026,
  title = {-ity},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/-ity},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}