mysticity
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The Count de Sinzendorf has ſhewn all Europe, that in the moſt enlightened age, perſeverance ſupported by enthuſiaſm and devotion, could recall that zeal, that Miſticity, thoſe extraordinary follies, which one would think proper only for the barbarous and dark ages."
- "I will endeavour to “make note” of their tenets, though many of them escaped me through their mysticity."
- "For three days it had been drifting. The land lay white and still under a lowering, threatening snow-cloud of dark indigo blue. It is a sky that is indescribable in its effect, and that effect is heightened by the unbroken whiteness that lies everywhere underneath it. Has any artist ever given us its mysticity, its strange gloom, its ominousness?"
- "Flavian had caught, in fact, something of the rhyming cadence, the sonorous organ-music of the medieval Latin, and therewithal something of its unction and mysticity of spirit."
- "And when somebody, it never was known who, but it was said to have been Olive, suggested that it was all fate, for Violet had played the beggar-maid to King Cophetua, the brain-excitement grew acute as that attendant on solemn rites,—and, overcome with mysticity, the women lay prone before the coincidence."
- "That is all: the touch of “idea” in the picture—of what is unusual a little—is the introduction of that guiding angel near the child, the mysticity of the place being merely Leonardesque—accidental to the painter’s mind, its own scenery;—[…]"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mewH- Proto-Indo-European *mewH-ye-der. Ancient Greek μῡ́ω (mū́ō) Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti Proto-Indo-European *-esyéti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Ancient Greek -έω (-éō) Ancient Greek μῠέω (mŭéō) Proto-Indo-European *-tósder. Ancient Greek -της (-tēs) Ancient Greek μῠ́στης (mŭ́stēs) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós) Ancient Greek μῠστῐκός (mŭstĭkós)der. Latin mysticus Old French mistiqueder. English mystic Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity French mysticitéder. English mysticity From mystic + -ity, after French mysticité.
Origin
- Source language: French