venerability
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
6
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Because of the professor's venerability his opinion was often asked, but his actual attendance in committee meetings was not insisted upon."
- "The far-flungness of the word, the phenomenological pleasure of finding it variously transformed by Ransom's modernity and Beowulf’s venerability made me feel vaguely something for which again I only found the words years later."
Etymology
From venerable + -ity, from Latin venerabilitas.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: venerabilitas