calidity

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noun

Heat.

OriginLatin caliditās →
Scrabble 14
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Meanings

nouncalidity (usually uncountable, plural calidities)

plural calidities

  1. obsoleteuncountableusuallyHeat.

    The queſtion is in vvhat part of this Serpent the poyſon doth lye; Some ſay in the head alone, and that therefore the Bazeliske is deafe, bycauſe the Ayre vvhich ſerueth the Organe of hearing, is reſolued by the intenſiue calidity: but this ſeemeth not to bee true, […]

    1608, Edward Topsell, “Of the Cockatrice”, in The Historie of Serpents. Or, The Second Booke of Liuing Creatures: […], London: […] William Jaggard, →OCLC, page 124

Origin

  1. Latincaliditās
  2. Englishcalidity

Borrowed from Latin caliditās, whence the Italian calidità. Compare calid.

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APA

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MLA

“calidity.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/calidity. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “calidity,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/calidity.

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