Calamity

Definition: Calamity

Calamity

Noun

1. An event resulting in great loss and misfortune; "the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity"; "the earthquake was a disaster".

Date "calamity" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Satire	CALAMITY, n. A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering. Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others. Source: Devil's Dictionary.
Literature	Calamity The beating down of standing corn by wind or storm. The word is derived from the Latin calamus (a stalk of corn). Hence, Cicero calls a storm Calamitosa tempestas (a corn-levelling tempest). "Another ill accident is drought, and the spoiling of the corn; inasmuch as the word `calamity' was first derived from calamus (stalk), when the corn could not get out of the ear."- Bacon. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Public Administration	A major adversity and distress, mainly personal; Sometimes used for disaster. All disasters are calamities, but not every calamity is a disaster for the community. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Calamity

Synonyms: cataclysm (n), catastrophe (n), disaster (n), tragedy (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Adversity	Mishap, mischance, misadventure, misfortune; disaster, calamity, catastrophe; accident, casualty, cross, reverse, check, contretemps, rub; backset, comedown, setback.
Evil	Disaster, accident, casualty; mishap; (misfortune); bad job, devil to pay; calamity, bale, catastrophe, tragedy; ruin; (destruction); adversity.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Calamity

English words defined with "calamity": Calamities, Calamity Jane ♦ Homicide by misadventure ♦ plague ♦ To get over, To take the trouble ♦ unconscious, Unheal ♦ Woful. (references)

Specialty definitions using "calamity": Apparition ♦ Burden of a Song ♦ Cabbage ♦ Fish, Fish in Troubled Water ♦ Gallows ♦ Hair, Handkerchief and Sword, Handwriting on the Wall ♦ Inundation ♦ Justice ♦ Knee ♦ Life-boat ♦ Pit ♦ Roof ♦ Stethoscope ♦ Tragedy ♦ Whirlwind. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	This sort of calamity we cannot always guard against, even amongst our best students. (School for Scoundrels; writing credit: Hal E. Chester; Patricia Moyes)
Lyrics	I've got too much time on my hands, it's hard to believe such a calamity ("Too Much Time On My Hands"; performing artist: STYX) Oh, calamity, is there no way out? ("Take The Long Way Home"; performing artist: Supertramp)
Movie/TV Titles	Calamity the Cow (1967) The Texan Meets Calamity Jane (1950) Calamity Jane and Sam Bass (1949) Captain Calamity (1936) A Successful Calamity (1932)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Calamity Jane : Her Life and Her Legend (reference) Calamity Jane: A Study in Historical Criticism (reference) Calamity Trail (reference) The Calamity Janes (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Calamity Jane (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Calamity Jane: First Complete Recording (1995 Studio Cast) [CAST RECORDING] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Beaumont and Fletcher	Calamity is man's true touchstone.
Davenant	Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.
Oliver Wendell Holmes	A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
Publilius Syrus	Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.
Ralph Waldo Emerson	Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint.
	And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship?
Samuel Johnson	Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience. You will find it a calamity.
Seneca	Calamity is virtue's opportunity.
William Shakespeare	Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, and thou art wedded to calamity.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Author	Date	Quotation
John Locke	1690	But since the government has a direct jurisdiction only over the land, and reaches the possessor of it, (before he has actually incorporated himself in the society) only as he dwells upon, and enjoys that; the obligation any one is under, by virtue of such enjoyment, to submit to the government, begins and ends with the enjoyment; so that whenever the owner, who has given nothing but such a tacit consent to the government, will, by donation, sale, or otherwise, quit the said possession, he is at liberty to go and incorporate himself into any other common-wealth; or to agree with others to begin a new one, in vacuis locis, in any part of the world, they can find free and unpossessed: whereas he, that has once, by actual agreement, and any express declaration, given his consent to be of any common- wealth, is perpetually and indispensably obliged to be, and remain unalterably a subject to it, and can never be again in the liberty of the state of nature; unless, by any calamity, the government he was under comes to be dissolved; or else by some public act cuts him off from being any longer a member of it. (Second Treatise of Government)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Scarlet Letter	Hawthorne, Nathaniel	In all seasons of calamity, indeed, whether general or of individuals, the outcast of society at once found her place.
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	In their calamity, to be served, is to be caressed.
King Richard III	Shakespeare, William	Why should calamity be fun of words?
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	JUSTICE, n. A commodity which is a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service. K K is a consonant that we get from the Greeks, but it can be traced away back beyond them to the Cerathians, a small commercial nation inhabiting the peninsula of Smero. In their tongue it was called Klatch, which means "destroyed." The form of the letter was originally precisely that of our H, but the erudite Dr. Snedeker explains that it was altered to its present shape to commemorate the destruction of the great temple of Jarute by an earthquake, circa 730 B.C. This building was famous for the two lofty columns of its portico, one of which was broken in half by the catastrophe, the other remaining intact. As the earlier form of the letter is supposed to have been suggested by these pillars, so, it is thought by the great antiquary, its later was adopted as a simple and natural -- not to say touching -- means of keeping the calamity ever in the national memory. It is not known if the name of the letter was altered as an additional mnemonic, or if the name was always Klatch and the destruction one of nature's pums. As each theory seems probable enough, I see no objection to believing both -- and Dr. Snedeker arrayed himself on that side of the question.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
John Adams	1797-1801	If they have exhibited an uncommon portion of calamity, it is the province of humanity to deplore and of wisdom to avoid the causes which may have produced it.
Andrew Jackson	1829-1837	Humanity and national honor demand that every effort should be made to avert so great a calamity.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Calamity" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.50% of the time. "Calamity" is used about 111 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	95.5%	106	31,637
Noun (proper)	4.5%	5	157,705
Total	100.00%	111	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "calamity" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Calamity	Last name	130	65,193
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Expressions using "calamity": calamity howler ♦ calamity jane. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "calamity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		kiamet (hell), katastrofë (catastrophe, disaster), gjëmë (catastrophe, disaster, fatality), fatkeqësi (accident, adversity, bane, casualty, disaster, distress, doom, evil, fatality, ill luck, infelicity, misadventure, misery, misfortune, plague, teen, tribulation, woe). (various references)

Arabic		‏فاجعة (catastrophe, disaster, fatality), ‏كارثة (blow, casualty, catastrophe, disaster, evil, fatal, fate, grief, holocaust, plague, scourge, shambles), ‏محنة (adversity, affliction, catastrophe, disaster, distress, misfortune, ordeal, trial, tribulation, woe), ‏مصيبة (adversity, affliction, blow, catastrophe, disaster, distress, misfortune, ordeal, scourge, trial, tribulation, woe), ‏نكبة (accident, catastrophe, disaster, disgrace), ‏نائبة مصيبة (catastrophe, disaster, misfortune), ‏قارعة (misfortune), ‏حدث (befall, come, come about, come by, come off, disaster, episode, event, fall out, flow, go, happen, happening, incident, juvenile, occasion, occur, pass, phenomenon, place, rise, take place, transpire, work, young, youngish, youngling, youngster), ‏طامة (catastrophe, disaster). (various references)

Bulgarian		бедствие (adversity, affliction, curse, disaster, distress, evil). (various references)

Chinese		灾难 (Calamities, Calamitous, Catastrophic), 災 (disaster), 殃 , 害 (evil, harm, to cause trouble to, to do harm to), 危難 . (various references)

Czech		pohroma (blight, catastrophe, disaster, plague), katastrofa (catastrophe, disaster), kalamita. (various references)

Danish		ulykke (accident, casualty), kalamitet. (various references)

Dutch		plaag (harmful organism, infestation, pest, scourge). (various references)

Esperanto		plago (scourge). (various references)

Faeroese		plága (scourge, torment). (various references)

Farsi		فاجعه (Catastrophe, Tragedy), مصیبت (Bale, Catastrophe, Curse, Disaster, Sorrow, Tragedy), بیچارگی (Misery, Misfortune), بلا (Bale, Curse, Deuce, Disaster, Misadventure, Pest, Plague, Scourge, Terror), بدبختی (Adversity, Disaster, Misadventure, Mischance, Misery, Misfortune, Mishap, Reverse, Wrack). (various references)

Finnish		onnettomuus (accident, casualty, disaster, misadventure, misfortune, mishap, unhappiness). (various references)

French		plaie, calamité (catastrophe). (various references)

Frisian		pleach (scourge, torment). (various references)

German		unglück (accident, adversity, bad luck, disaster, evil, hoodoo, infelicity, misadventure, misfortune, mishap, tragedy, unhappiness, wreck), Katastrophe (cataclysm, catastrophe, debacle, disaster, tragedy). (various references)

Greek		συμφορά (disaster, tribulation, woe). (various references)

Hebrew		מרור�" (bitterness, poison), קלל�" (curse, damnation, imprecation, malediction, swearword), פורע� ות (evil event, suffering, tribulation, trouble), אי�" (disaster, distress, misfortune, trouble), אסון (accident, catastrophe, disaster, tragedy), כי�" (misfortune), בל�"�" (catastrophe, disaster, horror, terror). (various references)

Hungarian		balsors (adversity, doom, fatality, ill fortune, ill luck, mishap), csapás (adversity, affliction, attack, bane, chop, clash, dent, disaster, follow-up attack, hack, hit, ills, misfortune, plague, raid, runway, slap, sorrow, strike, striking, stroke, thrust, track, tribulation, whack). (various references)

Indonesian		petaka (catastrophe, disaster, plague), musibah (disaster), kecelakaan (accident, bad luck, mishap, wreck), bencana (catastrophe, disaster, plague). (various references)

Italian		calamit� (catastrophe, curse, disaster, fatality, misfortune, scourge, visitation, woe). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		災厄 (accident, disaster), 惨禍 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		さいか (accident, approval, catastrophe, load, loading, mistake, remarriage, sanction, the lowest, the worst), へ�"じ (a moment, accident, an instant, answer, conversion, converted character, emergency, reply, response), よう (appearance, business, early death, employ, hire, in order to, kind, like, manner, so as to, so that, sort, such as, task, to become intoxicated, to get drunk, use, way, yang), やくさい (accident, disaster, running a translation), やくな�" (evil, misfortune), わざわい (catastrophe), �"な�" (fifth son, misfortune), ちい (lichen, natural disaster, position, status), さいやく (accident, disaster), たいな�" (great disaster), さいな�" (misfortune, southernmost), さいがい (boundary, disaster, end, limits, misfortune, outer-most), きょうへ�" (assassination, catastrophe, disaster, joint editorship), きょうじ (dignity, instruction, misfortune, picture framer, pride, scroll mounter, securing rights and profits, spoiled child, teaching), くせ�"と (crookedness, something disgusting, something not right, something out of the ordinary, something unhappy, something unpleasant, unlawfulness), たいやく (disaster, grand climacteric, great misfortune, important task or role or duty, original text with its translation printed side by side or on opposite page), さ�"か (admiration, affiliated with, eulogy, mountain nomads, mountain villa, obstetrics, oxidation, paean, participation, praise, song of praise, three summer months, under jurisdiction of, under the umbrella). (various references)

Korean		재앙 (Calamities). (various references)

Manx		seiyjaght (mixture, sadness). (various references)

Norwegian		katastrofe (disaster). (various references)

Pig Latin		alamitycay.(various references)

Portuguese		calamidade (affliction, bale, blow, calamite, curse, disaster, ill, scourge, tragedy). (various references)

Romanian		catastrofã (catastrophe, disaster, distress), calamitate (affliction, disaster, fatality, pain, reverse, scourge, woe), topenie (disaster), sinistru (awful, awfully, catastrophe, disaster, horrible, horribly, lugubrious, lugubriously, luridly, sinister), pedeapsã (castigation, chastisement, cuss, discipline, imposition, lag, pain, payment, pedate, penalty, penance, performance, plague, punishment, retribution, rod, sanction, trouble), pacoste (blight, curse, cuss, hanger-on, nuisance, offence, pain, pest, pestilence, plague), nenorocire (accident, affliction, bale, bane, blow, catastrophe, curse, disaster, distress, evil, ill, misadventure, misery, misfortune, need, reverse, rod, scourge, sore, trouble), nãpastã (blight, calumny, curse, disaster, injustice, offence, pest, plague, slander, wrong), loviturã (attack, bang, bat, beat, beating, blow, box, bump, burglary, butt, cant, clap, clip, coup, cuff, dash, drive, fib, flap, go, heading, hit, hunch, hurt, jab, jolt, kick, knock, lick, master stroke, pelt, push, round, set back, shack, shock, shot, slash, sling, smack, smash, stab, stick, strike, stroke, sweep, thrust), flagel (scourge), dezastru (casualty, disaster, fatality, scourge), bucluc (adversity, affliction, bother, coil, cross, disgrace, embarrassment, jam, quagmire, scrape, tribulation, trouble, upset), blestem (ban, blasphemy, cancer, curse, damn, damnation, execration, hardship, imprecation, malediction, offence, perdition), adversitate (adversity, disaster, misfortune). (various references)

Russian		бедствие (bale, bete noire, cancer, catastrophe, curse, disaster, distress, evil, plague, tribulation). (various references)

Scottish		urchoid (detriment, hurt, mischief), teinn (distress, sickness, straits). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		propast (bane, downfall, failure, perdition, precipice, ruin, ruination, smash, wrack, wreck), nesreća (accident, affliction, disaster, infelicity, misadventure, misfortune, mishap, plague, trouble, unhappiness, woe), neman (gorgon, hydra, monster), beda (destitution, grief, misery, pauperism, squalor). (various references)

Spanish		calamidad (disaster, fatality, loss, mischief, worriment). (various references)

Swedish		olycka (accident, affliction, bad luck, crash, disaster, ill luck, infelicity, mischance, misery, misfortune, unhappiness, woe, wretchedness), kalamitet. (various references)

Thai		เหตุการ�"์ที่เลวร้าย. (various references)

Turkish		yoksulluk (bareness, destitution, hardship, misery, need, neediness, pauperism, penury, poorness, poverty, privation), sefalet (beggary, dog's life, misery, poverty, sordidness, squalidity, squalidness, squalor, wretchedness), musibet (evil, pest, tribulation), felâket (affliction, bane, blight, blow, calvary, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, debacle, disaster, distress, fatality, fate, harm, hell, hell of, helluva, misfortune, mishap, plague, scathe, scourge, tragedy, undoing), belâ (affliction, bore, curse, damnation, darned, evil, ill, misfortune, nuisance, pest, plague, rock, scourge, tribulation, trouble), afet (a bewitching beauty, bane, beauty, blight, cataclysm, catastrophe, disaster, kayo, knockout, stunner). (various references)

Ukranian		скорбота (affliction, dolor, dolour, harm, woe), розпука, катастрофа (accident, casualty, catastrophe, collapse, crash, debacle, smash, wreck), горе (affliction, distress, grame, grief, rue, smart, tears, teen, woe), відчай (despair, hopelessness), нещастя (adversity, affliction, bale, catastrophe, fatality, ill luck, infelicity, misadventure, misfortune, tribulation, unhappiness, work), лихо (adversity, affliction, bad, bale, cancer, catastrophe, curse, disaster, harm, ill, mischief, mishap, plague, woe), біда (affliction, bale, cancer, catastrophe, evil, mischief, misfortune, need). (various references)

Vietnamese		thiên tai anh ch� ng bi quan yếm thế luôn luôn kêu khổ, tai hoạ (affliction, blight, casualty, curse, disaster), tai ương (adversity, catastrophe, woe). (various references)

Welsh		trychineb (disaster), armes (prophecy), aflwyddiant (failure, misfortune), aflwydd (failure, misfortune). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	acerbi, acerbo, aerumna, aerumnae, aerumnas, aerumnis, calamitas, cassum, casu, casui, casum, casumque, casus, cladem, clades, fado, lues, mala, male, mali, malis, malo, malorum, malum, malumque, perniciem, scelera, scelere, sceleri, sceleribus, sceleris, scelerum, scelus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Proverbs Chapter 1, Verse 26
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Toigaroun kagw th umetera apwleia epigelasomai katacaroumai de hnika an erchtai umin oleqroV
Latin	405	Vulgate	Ego quoque in interitu vestro ridebo et subsannabo cum vobis quod timebatis advenerit
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	I forsothe in youre deth shal lawyhe; and vndermouwe you, whan to you that, that yee dredden, shal come.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
Victorian English	1833	Webster	I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
Basic English	1964	Ogden	So in the day of your trouble I will be laughing; I will make sport of your fear;
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Proverbs Chapter 1, Verse 26
Bulgarian	То аз ще се смея на вашето бедствие, Ще се присмея, когато ви нападне страхът,
Cebuano	Ako usab mokatawa sa adlaw sa inyong pagkaalaut; Ako magatamay sa diha nga moabut ang inyong kahadlok;
Chinese	� 們遭災難、我就發笑．驚恐臨到 � 們、我必嗤笑．
Croatian	zato æu se i ja smijati vašoj propasti, rugat æu se kad vas obuzme tjeskoba:
Danish	derfor ler jeg ved eders Ulykke, spotter, når det, I frygter, kommer,
Dutch	Zo zal Ik ook in ulieder verderf lachen; Ik zal spotten, wanneer uw vreze komt.
Finnish	niin minäkin nauran teidän hädällenne, pilkkaan, kun tulee se, mitä te kauhistutte;
French	Moi aussi, je rirai quand vous serez dans le malheur, Je me moquerai quand la terreur vous saisira,
German	so will ich auch lachen in eurem Unglück und eurer spotten, wenn da kommt, was ihr fürchtet,
Haitian Creole	Konsa, lè n'a nan ka, m'a ri nou. Lè malè va fè nou tranble, m'a pase nou nan rizib.
Hungarian	Én is a ti nyomorúságtokon nevetek, megcsúfollak, mikor eljõ az, a mitõl féltek.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Karena itu, kalau kamu celaka, aku akan menertawakan kamu. Apabila kamu ketakutan, aku akan mengejek kamu.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	maka akupun akan tertawakan balamu kelak serta mengolok-olok akan kamu apabila ketakutan datang atas kamu.
Italian	anch'io riderò delle vostre sventure, mi farò beffe quando su di voi verr� la paura,
Korean	도 리 어 나 의 모 �" 교 훈 을 멸 시 하 며 나 의 책 망 을 받 지 아 니 하 였 은 즉
Maori	Mo reira ka kata ahau i te ra o to koutou aitua; ka tawai ina pa te pawera ki a koutou.
Modern Greek	δια τουτο και εγω θελω επιγελασει εις τον ολεθρον σας· θελω καταχαρη, οταν επελθη ο φοβος σας.
Norwegian	så vil også jeg le når ulykken rammer eder, jeg vil spotte når det kommer som I reddes for,
Portuguese	também eu me rirei no dia da vossa calamidade; zombarei, quando sobrevier o vosso terror,
Rumanian	de aceea wi eu, voi rkde cknd veyi fi kn vreo nenorocire, kmi voi bate joc de voi cknd vq va apuca groaza,
Russian	ъБ ФП Й С � ПУНЕАУШ ЧБЫЕК � ПЗЙ�'ЕМЙ; � ПТБ�"ХАУШ, ЛПЗ�"Б � ТЙ�"ЕФ ОБ ЧБУ ХЦБУ;
Spanish	yo también me reiré en vuestra calamidad. Me burlaré cuando os llegue lo que teméis,
Swedish	därför skall ock jag le vid eder ofärd och bespotta, när det kommer, som I frukten, >Ps. 2,4. 37,13. 59,9. Ords. 3,34.
Thai	ฝ่ายเราจะหัวเราะเย้ยความหายนะของเจ้า เราจะเยาะเมื่อความหวา�"กลัวลานมากระทบเจ้า
Ukrainian	Тож у вашім нещасті сміятися буду і я, насміхатися буду, як прийде ваш страх.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Misspellings
	"Calamity" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aclarity, calamit, Calamita, calamitly, calmity, chalamont, clamity, kalamity. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "calamity" (pronounced kula"mutē)
5	-a" m u t ē	amity.
4	-m u t ē	anonymity, conformity, deformity, enmity, enormity, equanimity, extremity, infirmity, Nonconformity, proximity, unanimity, uniformity.
3	-u t ē	ability, abnormality, absurdity, acceptability, accessibility, accountability, acidity, activity, actuality, acuity, adaptability, admissibility, adversity, advisability, affinity, affordability, aggressivity, agility, alacrity, alkalinity, ambiguity, amenity, amiability, analyticity, animosity, annuity, antiquity, anxiety, applicability, atrocity, audacity, austerity, authenticity, authority, availability, banality, barbarity, believability, bestiality, biodiversity, bisexuality, brevity, brutality, capability, capacity, captivity, causality, cavity, celebrity, centrality, charity, chastity, civility, clarity, collegiality, commodity, commonality, community, comparability, compatibility, complexity, complicity, comprehensibility, conditionality, conductivity, confidentiality, congeniality, congruity, connectivity, constitutionality, continuity, convertibility, creativity, credibility, credulity, criminality, criticality, crotchety, culpability, curiosity, cyclicality, debility, deductibility, deity, deniability, density, dependability, depravity, deputy, desirability, dexterity, dignity, dimensionality, disability, discontinuity, disparity, dissimilarity, disunity, diversity, divinity, docility, domesticity, duality, ductility, duplicity, durability, eccentricity, elasticity, electability, electricity, eligibility, enforceability, entity, equality, equity, eternity, ethnicity, eventuality, exclusivity, expressivity, extraterritoriality, facility, fallibility, falsity, familiarity, fatality, feasibility, Felicity, femininity, ferocity, fertility, festivity, fidelity, finality, flammability, flexibility, fluidity, formality, fragility, fraternity, frivolity, frugality, functionality, futility, generality, generosity, geniality, gentility, gratuity, gravity, gullibility, heredity, heterogeneity, heterosexuality, hilarity, homogeneity, homosexuality, hospitality, hostility, humanity, humidity, humility, hyperactivity, hypersensitivity, identity, illegality, illiquidity, immaturity, immobility, immorality, immortality, immunity, impartiality, impersonality, impossibility, impropriety, impunity, impurity, inability, inaccessibility, inactivity, incapacity, incivility, incompatibility, incongruity, incredulity, indemnity, indestructibility, indignity, individuality, inequality, inequity, inevitability, infallibility, inferiority, infertility, infidelity, infinity, inflexibility, informality, ingenuity, inhumanity, insanity, insecurity, insensitivity, instability, instrumentality, insularity, integrity, intensity, invincibility, invisibility, invulnerability, irrationality, irregularity, irresponsibility, irritability, laity, laxity, legality, legibility, lethality, levity, liability, liberality, liquidity, lividity, locality, longevity, majority, malleability, maneuverability, marketability, masculinity, materiality, maternity, maturity, mediocrity, mendacity, mentality, minority, miscibility, mobility, modality, modernity, monstrosity, morality, morbidity, mortality, motility, multiplicity, municipality, musicality, mutuality, nationality, nativity, necessity, negativity, neutrality, nobility, nonentity, nonutility, normality, notoriety, nudity, obesity, objectivity, obscenity, obscurity, oddity, opacity, opportunity, originality, overcapacity, oversensitivity, palatability, parity, partiality, particularity, passivity, paternity, paucity, peculiarity, permeability, perpetuity, perplexity, personality, perversity, piety, plausibility, plurality, polarity, polity, pomposity, popularity, portability, possibility, posterity, practicality, predictability, principality, priority, probability, probity, proclivity, productivity, profanity, profitability, progressivity, promiscuity, propensity, proportionality, propriety, prosperity, publicity, punctuality, purity, quality, quantity, radioactivity, rapidity, rarity, rationality, reactivity, readability, reality, receptivity, reciprocity, reflexivity, regularity, relativity, reliability, religiosity, respectability, responsibility, retroactivity, rickety, rigidity, salinity, sanctity, sanity, scarcity, seasonality, security, selectivity, senility, seniority, sensibility, sensitivity, sensuality, sentimentality, serendipity, serenity, severity, sexuality, similarity, simplicity, sincerity, sobriety, society, solemnity, solidarity, solidity, sorority, speciality, specificity, spirituality, spontaneity, stability, sterility, stupidity, subjectivity, suitability, superconductivity, superfluidity, superiority, supermajority, surety, survivability, susceptibility, sustainability, technicality, temerity, tenacity, theatricality, timidity, tonality, totality, toxicity, tranquility, transferability, Trinity, triviality, turbidity, ubiquity, unavailability, unfamiliarity, unity, universality, university, unpopularity, unpredictability, unreality, unreliability, uppity, utility, validity, vanity, variability, variety, varsity, velocity, velvety, venality, veracity, Verity, versatility, viability, vicinity, virginity, virility, virtuosity, viscosity, visibility, vitality, volatility, voracity, vulgarity, vulnerability.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-i-l-m-t-y"
	-1 letter: cymatia.
	-2 letters: amylic, calami, camail, lactam.
	-3 letters: aliya, amity, claim, laity, lamia, lytic, malic, malty, milty, tamal, tical.
	-4 letters: acta, acyl, alit, alma, amia, amyl, atma, calm, city, clam, clay, clit, cyma, lacy, laic, lama, lati, lima, limy, mail, malt, maya, mica, milt, mity, tail, tala, talc, tali.
	-5 letters: aal, act, ail, aim, ait, ala, alt, ama, ami, cam, cat, cay, icy, lac, lam, lat, lay, lit, mac, mat, may, mil, tam, tic, til, yam.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-i-l-m-t-y"
	+2 letters: atomically.
	+3 letters: amicability, cataclysmic, gametically, somatically.
	+4 letters: amitotically, anatomically, apocalyptism, aromatically, asymmetrical, calamitously, climatically, dogmatically, dramatically, empathically, emphatically, hypothalamic, immaculately, magnetically, majestically, metallically, metaphysical, microanalyst, monastically, romantically, semantically, thematically.
	+5 letters: apocalyptisms, apomictically, asthmatically, atomistically, automatically, autonomically, axiomatically, bathymetrical, bombastically, chromatically, cinematically, climactically, comparability, comparatively, complaisantly, diametrically, enigmatically, enzymatically, grammatically, gymnastically, idiomatically, imagistically, implacability, impracticably, impractically, judgmatically, kinematically, lymphatically, machinability, metabolically, metamerically, microanalysts, microanalytic, mutagenically, mycobacterial, onomastically, pneumatically, pragmatically, prismatically, rheumatically, schematically, stigmatically, sympatrically, taxonomically, traumatically.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 61 6C 61 6D 69 74 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

⁼

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-. .- .-.. .- -- .. - -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01100001 01101100 01100001 01101101 01101001 01110100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#97 &#108 &#97 &#109 &#105 &#116 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0061 006C 0061 006D 0069 0074 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Expression	Frequency per Day
calamity jane	137
calamity	21
calamity day doris jane	9
calamity jane picture	8
calamity jane lyrics	7
natural calamity	6
calamity jane putter	3
calamity janes	3
calamity jane lyrics song	3
calamity estuary	3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Calamity

Definition: Calamity

Calamity

Noun

Specialty Definitions: Calamity

Satire

Literature

Public Administration

Synonyms: Calamity

Synonyms within Context: Calamity

Adversity

Evil

Crosswords: Calamity

Modern Usage: Calamity

Screenplays

Lyrics

Movie/TV Titles

Commercial Usage: Calamity

Books

Theater & Movies

Music

Familiar Quotations: Calamity

Beaumont and Fletcher

Davenant

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Publilius Syrus

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Samuel Johnson

Seneca

William Shakespeare

Historic Usage: Calamity

John Locke

Use in Literature: Calamity

Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

King Richard III

Shakespeare, William

Non-Fiction Usage: Calamity

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

Speeches: Calamity

John Adams

Andrew Jackson

Usage Frequency: Calamity

Name Usage Frequency: Calamity

Expressions: Calamity

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Calamity

calamity jane

calamity

calamity day doris jane

calamity jane picture

calamity jane lyrics

natural calamity

calamity jane putter

calamity janes

calamity jane lyrics song

calamity estuary

Modern Translations: Calamity

Albanian

Arabic

Bulgarian

Chinese

Czech

Danish

Dutch

Esperanto

Faeroese

Farsi

Finnish

French

Frisian

German

Greek

Hebrew

Hungarian

Indonesian

Italian

Japanese Kanji