Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

imbonity

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: im-boni-ty
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Lack of goodness.

Countable; Obsolete; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"All fears, griefs, suspicions, discontents, imbonities, insuavities are swallowed up, and drowned in this Euripus, this Irish Sea, this Ocean of misery, as so many small brooks; 'tis coagulum omnium ærumnarum: which Ammianus applyed to his distressed Palladius, I say of our Melancholy man, hee is the cream of humane adversity, the quintessence, and upshots; all other diseases whatsoever, are but flea-bitings to Melancholy in extent […]"
"Divest yourselves of your imbonity, incogitancy, and malversation; bonity is impetrable; perpend your long-inquity from eupathy, and the inenarrable sequences of your impreparation for the apropinquating catastrophe."

Etymology

From im- (“not”) + Latin bonitās (“goodness”).

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: bonitās

Usage

Inflected Forms

imbonities (plural)

Questions

What does imbonity mean?: Lack of goodness.
Where does imbonity come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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