minacity

English

Etymology

From Late Latin minacitas, from Latin minax (“threatening”) + -itas (“-ity: forming abstract nouns”).

Noun

minacity (usually uncountable, plural minacities)

  1. Synonym of menace: The action or process of threatening or the tendancy to threaten.
    • 1864, Leigh Hunt, The Seer, or, Common-Places Refreshed, Vol. II, p. 278:
      ...Nor is the district without its historical minacities...

Anagrams

References
  • minacity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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