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PROCACITY

Definition: PROCACITY

PROCACITY

Noun

1. Forwardness; pertness; petulance.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Procacity \Pro*cac"i*ty\, noun. [Latin expression procacitas.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms within Context: PROCACITY

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Discourtesy

Disrespect; procacity, impudence: barbarism, barbarity; misbehavior, brutality, blackguardism, conduct unbecoming a gentleman, grossieret_, brusquerie; vulgarity,.

Insolence

Impertinence; sauciness; Adjective: flippancy, dicacity, petulance, procacity, bluster; swagger, swaggering; Verb: bounce; terrorism.

Irascibility

Noun: irascibility, irascibleness, temper; crossness; Adjective: susceptibility, procacity, petulance, irritability, tartness, acerbity, protervity; pugnacity; (contentiousness).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Rhyming with "PROCACITY"

Words rhyming with "PROCACITY" (pronounced 'Pro*cac"i*ty'): Ability, Abnormality, Abnormity, Aboriginality, Absorbability, Absorptivity, Abstrusity, Absurdity, Accendibility, Accentuality, Acceptability, Accessibility, Accidentality, Acclivity, Accomplicity, Accountability, Acerbity, Acetosity, Achromaticity, Acidity, Acquirability, Acrity, Activity, Actuality, Actuosity, Acuity, Addibility, Admirability, Admiralty, Admissibility, Adorability, Aduncity, Adverbiality, Adversity, Advisability, Aeriality, Affability, Affectibility, Agaty, Agility, Agreeability, Alacrity, Alamodality, Aldermanity, Algidity, Alibility, Alienability, Alkalinity, Allotropicity, Alterability. (additional references)

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Anagrams: PROCACITY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-i-o-p-r-t-y"

-2 letters: acrotic, apricot, aprotic, copycat, cryptic, opacity, parotic, practic, topiary.

-3 letters: aortic, arctic, atopic, atypic, capric, captor, cartop, crypto, parity, picaro, piracy, tropic.

-4 letters: actor, aport, atopy, atrip, cacti, carpi, circa, coact, coapt, coati, copra, coria, croci, crypt, optic, party, patio, payor, picot, pricy, pyric, ratio, tapir, taroc, topic, toric, triac, typic.

-5 letters: airt, airy.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-c-i-o-p-r-t-y"
 

+2 letters: cryptogamic, macrophytic, pyroclastic.

 

+3 letters: chalcopyrite, hypocritical, lycanthropic, overcapacity, pantisocracy, physiocratic, prophylactic, prostacyclin.

 

+4 letters: chalcopyrites, cryptographic, cryptological, polychromatic, prophylactics, prostacyclins, pyrotechnical.

 

+5 letters: hypocoristical, hypocritically, nonpsychiatric, psychodramatic.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: PROCACITY


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

50 52 4F 43 41 43 49 54 59

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

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

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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)

01010000 01010010 01001111 01000011 01000001 01000011 01001001 01010100 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#82 &#79 &#67 &#65 &#67 &#73 &#84 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0052 004F 0043 0041 0043 0049 0054 0059

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

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

505249373537435459

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Rhymes
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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