urbanicity

plural urbanicities

1. uncountableusuallyThe quality or fact of (an area) being urban.

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   The risk of psychotic disorder in the population exposed to urbanicity alone was 1.59% (31/1946), the risk in those exposed to family history, broadly defined, alone was 3.01% ... Thus, between 60% and 70% of the individuals exposed to both urbanicity and family history had developed psychotic disorder because of the synergistic action of the two proxy causes.

   1997, Waltina Scheumann, Managing Salinization: Institutional Analysis of Public Irrigation Systems

2. uncountableusuallyThe degree to which a given geographical area is urban.

   2002: Heinz Häfner (ed), Risk and Protective Factors in Schizophrenia: Towards a Conceptual Model of the Disease Process A number of studies have associated urbanicity at birth or upbringing with schizophrenia risk.

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   To assess this hypothesis, the urbanicity of a boy's place of residence was run against enlistment.

   1972, Jerome Johnston, Jerald Bachman, Young Men and Military Service