sphinxity
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Like the poem of Epysychidion, by Shelley, the entrails of our epilogomena, will be caviare to the many-headed but to the select few will be as water to the parched earth, as manna to the hungry Israelite; they will unravel our sphinxities, and untwist our enigmatics, so that our dictum shall be as the opening of the seventh seal, or the finality of cherubian metastasis."
- "At first we stand agedly solemn before the sphinxity of life, and "on ne devient pas jeune qu'avec le temps.""
- "[…] the "sphinxity" of humans themselves, the riddle that we carry within us and that we have assigned ourselves to solve."
- "We always end up understanding it and the intimate satisfaction we gain from guessing at its sphinxities amply repays the laboriousness of our efforts."
Etymology
From sphinx + -ity.