ubicity

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/juːˈbɪsɪti/

noun

whereabouts, location

OriginLatin ubi →
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Meanings

nounubicity (plural ubicities)

plural ubicities

  1. whereabouts, location

    And as no man knows the ubicity of his tumulus nor to what processes we shall thereby be ushered nor whether to Tophet or to Edenville in the like way is all hidden when we would backward see from what region of remoteness the whatness of our whoness hath fetched his whenceness.

    1922, James Joyce, Ulysses

Origin

  1. Latinubi“where”
  2. Englishubicity

From Latin ubi (“where”) + -icity.

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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