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SEGNITY

Definition: SEGNITY

SEGNITY

Noun

1. Sluggishness; dullness; inactivity.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Synonyms within Context: SEGNITY

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

Inactivity

Dullness; Adjective: languor; segnity, segnitude; lentor; sluggishness; (slowness); procrastination; (delay); torpor, torpidity, torpescence; stupor; (insensibility); somnolence; drowsiness; Adjective: nodding; Verb: oscitation, oscitancy; pandiculation, hypnotism, lethargy; statuvolence heaviness, heavy eyelids.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: SEGNITY

English words defined with "SEGNITY": Segnitude. (references)

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Anagrams: SEGNITY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-g-i-n-s-t-y"

-1 letter: ingest, signet, stingy, stying, tinges.

-2 letters: eying, gents, inset, neist, nites, segni, sengi, senti, singe, stein, sting, tines, tinge, tings, tying, tynes, yetis.

-3 letters: egis, engs, gens, gent, gest, gets, gien, gies, gins, gist, gits, nest, nets, nite, nits, sent, sign, sine, sing, site, snit, snye, stey, stye, syne, tegs, tens, ties, tine.

 Words containing the letters "e-g-i-n-s-t-y"
 

+1 letter: yeasting.

 

+2 letters: egyptians, encysting, estraying, hygienist, oystering, restyling, safetying, steadying, stymieing, synergist, teasingly.

 

+3 letters: amnestying, curtseying, cytogenies, destroying, eyestrings, generosity, gyniatries, hygienists, oysterings, panegyrist, restudying, roystering, sterlingly, stringency, stupefying, synergetic, synergists, testifying.

 

+4 letters: arrestingly, astringency, courtesying, designatory, esterifying, insurgently, keystroking, overstaying, panegyrists, proselyting, sovereignty, stellifying, stenotyping, stringently, synergistic, systemizing, tapestrying, travestying, trichogynes, trypsinogen, typecasting, typesetting, unsteadying, yesternight.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SEGNITY


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

53 45 47 4E 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)

01010011 01000101 01000111 01001110 01001001 01010100 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#69 &#71 &#78 &#73 &#84 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0045 0047 004E 0049 0054 0059

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

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

53394148435459

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INDEX

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


  

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