-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.audacity:
1. Boldness, daring, intrepidity; confidence.
2. Boldness combined with disregard of consequences; venturesomeness, rashness, recklessness. 3. Open disregard of the restraints of decorum or morality; effrontery, impudence, shamelessness. capacity:
Ability to receive, hold, or absorb; the maximum amount that can be contained or produced.
carnivoracity, appetite for flesh.
loquacity:
The condition or quality of being loquacious; talkativeness.
mendacity:
The quality of being mendacious; the tendency or disposition to lie or deceive; habitual lying or deceiving.
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. perspicacity:
Keenness of sight; clearness of understanding or insight; penetration, discernment.
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.
tenacity:
1. Holding firmly, persistent.
2. The quality of retaining what is held, physically or mentally; firmness of hold or attachment; firmness of purpose, persistence, obstinacy. veracity:
The quality or character in persons of speaking or stating the truth; habitual observance of the truth; truthfulness, veraciousness.
vivacity:
Lively, filled with animation and spirit.
voracity:
The quality or character of being voracious; greediness in eating.
bellacity:
bibacity:
carnivoracity:
contumacity:
efficacity:
fallacity:
furacity:
grandiloquacity:
inaudacity:
incapacity:
inefficacity:
insagacity:
inveracity:
linguacity:
mordacity:
omnivoracity:
orchidacity:
pertinacity:
pervicacity:
pugnacity:
rapacity:
saponacity:
soliloquacity:
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