Meanings
- uncountableThe quality of being part of the Roman world and living according to Roman customs.
Germanic tribes – Angles, Saxons and Jutes – had invaded Britannia along its eastern shore, slowly driving the Britons west and forcing some to forsake their Christianity and their Romanity for “Barbaria and paganism.”
2022, Gregory Baker, Classics and Celtic Literary Modernism, page 161Synonyms: Romanness
- uncountableThe culture, civilization, spirit, ideals or customs of ancient Rome.
Romanity too shows a multiple face. There is a specifically Aryan Romanity, characterised by the symbols of the axe, the eagle, the wolf, and other symbols of a heritage which is, basically, Hyperborean; […]
2022, Julius Evola, The Elements of Racial Education, page 72 - uncountableRoman Catholicism.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe quality of being part of the Roman world and living according to Roman customs.
nounThe culture, civilization, spirit, ideals or customs of ancient Rome.
Origin
- LatinRōmānitās
- LatinRōmānitās
- EnglishRomanity
Borrowed from Latin Rōmānitās. By surface analysis, Roman + -ity.
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Romanity. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Romanity
“Romanity.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Romanity. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Romanity,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Romanity.
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