-ity
a suffix used to form abstract nouns expressing state or condition:
jollity; civility; latinity.
-ity
suffix
indicating state or condition technicality
word origin
-ity
suffix forming nouns from adjectives, meaning “condition or quality of being ______,” from m.e. -ite, from o.fr. -ité and directly from l. -itatem (nom. -itas), composed of connective -i- + -tas (see -ty (2))
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