lacrimosity
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The King, with his constant attendant, Count Hollenstein, watched from the Galerie des Glaces the watery tournament on the great terrace between tritons, naïads, dragons, and the genii of the French rivers and the queer lacrimosities of the toads and turtles of Latona’s fountain."
- "Brill could lead a day of weeping in which people meditated on threatened species, dying pandas, starving koalas, bludgeoned seal pups and similar mammalian tearjerkers while catching their lacrimosities in little plastic vals which they would then drop off at collection points in shopping malls, post offices, etc."
- "It is thus — after countless cycles of gods and cloned encodings, of lost forest and foundry, of bombs and lacrimosity — that there re-emerges…in the thin stale coincidence of time…a duplicate string of peasant farm implements."
Etymology
From lacrimose + -ity.