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, volume II, page 278:

     ...Nor is the district without its historical minacities...

Related terms

• minacious, minacy

References

• “minacity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• imitancy, intimacy