urbacity
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The Englishman has quite justly been accused of insularity. That in itself is bad, but there is a compound insularity for which no word of English exists, because the state of mind is not realised. It is the citified insularity of London, London’s “urbacity.” I had to coin a word for it."
- "England has suffered cruelly because she would not think, because she was case-armoured in her insular conceit and the urbacity of her politicians. Insularity would be a term too complimentary and too all-embracing to use of them"
- "Urbacity is a disease that attacks dwellers in cities and causes them to imagine that the world is like New York or Kankakee or Gopher Prairie or wherever they happen to live."
- "It’s raining on Melbourne / on another design concept / made to reassure the citizens / of that city that god-given urbacity / will protect them forever / within a Florentine fantasy."