minacity

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noun

Synonym of menace: The action or process of threatening or the tendency to threaten.

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menace
OriginLate Latin minacitas ← Latin minax →
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Meanings

nounminacity (usually uncountable, plural minacities)

plural minacities

  1. uncountableusuallySynonym of menace: The action or process of threatening or the tendency to threaten.

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

    1864, Leigh Hunt, The Seer, or, Common-Places Refreshed, volume II, page 278

    Synonyms: menace

Synonyms & antonyms

nounSynonym of menace: The action or process of threatening or the tendency to threaten.

Similar
menace
Also see
menace

Origin

  1. Latinminax“threatening”
  2. Late Latinminacitas
  3. Englishminacity

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

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APA

minacity. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/minacity

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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