Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

Definitions: Amity |
AmityNoun1. A cordial disposition. 2. A state of friendship and cordiality. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Amity" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a friendship". |
Date "amity" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Synonym: AmitySynonym: cordiality (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Amity, Arkansas."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Concord | Rapprochement; reunion; amity; (friendship); alliance, entente cordiale, good understanding, conciliation, peacemaker; intercessor, mediator. |
Friendship | Noun: friendship, amity; friendliness; Adjective: brotherhood, fraternity, sodality, confraternity; harmony; (concord); peace. |
Peace | Noun: peace; amity; (friendship); harmony; (concord); tranquility, calm; (quiescence); truce, peace treaty, accord; (pacification); peace pipe, pipe of peace, calumet of peace. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Amity |
| English words defined with "amity": Amities ♦ To smoke the pipe of peace ♦ Union joint. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "amity": Dunmow ♦ War. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "amity": inimical. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Violence, rip-offs, muggings Kids can't leave the house - you've gotta walk them to school! But in Amity one man can make a difference! (Jaws; writing credit: Peter Benchley; Carl Gottlieb) Violence, rip-offs, muggings Kids can't leave the house - you've gotta walk them to school! But in Amity one man can make a difference! (Jaws; writing credit: Peter Benchley; Carl Gottlieb) I'm only trying to say that Amity is a summer town. (Jaws; writing credit: Peter Benchley; Carl Gottlieb) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title | ||
References | |||
Books |
| ||
Periodicals |
| ||
Music |
| ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
![]() | America. To those, who wish to sheathe the desolating sword of war. And, to restore the blessings of peace and amity, to a divided people.Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | The signing of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce and of Alliance between France and the United States.Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | The signing of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce and of Alliance between France and the United States.Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Truckman napping at Amity Hall, Pennsylvania.Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Truck drivers resting in lounge at Amity Hall, Pennsylvania. Truckers' facilities at Amity Hall are, according to the drivers, model accomodations and of a kind not found elsewhere.Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Sleeping quarters for truckmen at Amity Hall, Pennsylvania. An attendant awakens the men at any hour of the day or night required by their schedule.Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Automobile convoys at Amity Hall, Pennsylvania.Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Harrisburg (vicinity), Pennsylvania. Interior of the men's washrooms at Amity Hall.Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Harrisburg (vicinity), Pennsylvania. Billboard advertising Amity Hall.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | It spoke such perfect amity. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Thailand | The principal bilateral arrangement is the 1966 Treaty of Amity and Economic Relations, which facilitates U.S. and Thai companies' economic access. (references) |
Ethiopia | U.S.-Ethiopian relations were established in 1903 and were good throughout the period prior to the Italian occupation in 1935. After World War II, these ties strengthened, on the basis of a September 1951 treaty of amity and economic relations. (references) | |
Bangladesh | The largest and most visible symbol of bilateral amity is the Bangladesh-China "Friendship Bridge," completed in 1989 near Dhaka, as well as the extensive military hardware in the Bangladesh inventory and warm military relations between the two countries. (references) | |
Political Economy | THAILAND | Investment Barriers: The U.S.-Thai Treaty of Amity and Economic Relations of 1966 (AER) accords U.S. citizens and businesses national treatment in many areas, exempting them from restrictions on foreign investment set out in the Alien Business Law (ABL). (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity. The student of history who has not been taught to expect the unexpected may justly boast himself inaccessible to the light. "In time of peace prepare for war" has a deeper meaning than is commonly discerned; it means, not merely that all things earthly have an end -- that change is the one immutable and eternal law -- but that the soil of peace is thickly sown with the seeds of war and singularly suited to their germination and growth. It was when Kubla Khan had decreed his "stately pleasure dome" -- when, that is to say, there were peace and fat feasting in Xanadu -- that he heard from afar Ancestral voices prophesying war. One of the greatest of poets, Coleridge was one of the wisest of men, and it was not for nothing that he read us this parable. Let us have a little less of "hands across the sea," and a little more of that elemental distrust that is the security of nations. War loves to come like a thief in the night; professions of eternal amity provide the night. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John Adams | 1797-1801 | This may be compared to a treaty of commerce, by which those distinct states are cemented together, in perpetual league and amity. |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | Where an enterprise is meditated by private individuals against a foreign nation in amity with the United States, powers of prevention to a certain extent are given by the laws. |
James Madison | 1809-1817 | In relation to the powers on the coast of Barbary, nothing has occurred which is not of a nature rather to inspire confidence than distrust as to the continuance of the existing amity. |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | For like injuries it will be incumbent on us to seek redress in a spirit of amity, in full confidence that, injuring none, none would knowingly injure us. |
John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | Treaties of peace, amity, and commerce have been concluded with the principal dominions of the earth. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | With Brazil and all our neighbors of this continent we continue to maintain relations of amity and concord, extending our commerce with them as far as the resources of the people and the policy of their Governments will permit. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Amity" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.55% of the time. "Amity" is used about 31 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) | 93.55% | 29 | 64,444 |
| Noun (proper) | 6.45% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 31 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| Australia | Amity Oil Ltd. |
| (more examples...) |
Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Amity, AR (city, FIPS 1360) 2. Amity, MO (town, FIPS 1054) 3. Amity, OR (city, FIPS 2000) 4. Amity, PA |
Expressions using "amity": amity Gardens ♦ North Amity. 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
amity | 102 | amity international | 4 |
amity oregon | 33 | amity business school | 4 |
amity arkansas | 21 | amity hall | 4 |
amity high school | 20 | amity harbor sports | 4 |
amity fem dom | 19 | amity vineyard | 4 |
amity wallet | 18 | amity solution | 4 |
amity pa | 18 | amity shlaes | 4 |
amity oil | 16 | mitsubishi amity | 3 |
amity missouri | 12 | amity house | 3 |
amity nissan | 11 | amity man wallet | 3 |
amity leather | 7 | amity leather product | 3 |
amity township | 7 | mortgage amity | 3 |
amity toyota | 6 | amity rolfs | 3 |
amity regional high school | 6 | amity rental | 3 |
amity foundation | 6 | amity flight school | 3 |
amity island | 6 | amity maine | 3 |
amity world | 6 | amity auction | 3 |
amity observer | 5 | amity institute | 3 |
amity wine | 5 | amity district school | 2 |
amity vp | 5 | amity school | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "amity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | paqe (pax, peace, placidity, serenity), miqësi (amiability, amicability, comradeship, fellowship, fraternity, friendship, good fellowship, goodness, unity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | وئام (concord, peace), تفاهم (harmony, understanding), صداقة (familiarity, friendliness, friendship). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | разбирателство (rapport, sympathy, understanding, unity), мирни отношения, приятелство (friendship), приятелски отношения, добри чувства. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | přátelské vztahy. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مودت , حسن تفاهم , رفاقت (Camaraderie), روابطحسنه . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | sovinto (adjustment, harmony, reconciliation, settlement). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | amitié, entente, concorde. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Freundschaft (familiarity, friendship). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | φιλία (companionship, friendship). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | י"י"ות (affection, familiarity, fellowship, friendliness, friendship, neighborliness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | jó viszony, barátság (amicability, fellowship, friendship), baráti viszony. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | persahabatan (association). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | amicizia (companionship, fellowship, friendship, goodwill). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 交誼 (friendship), 交宜 (friendship), 友交 (companionship, friendship), 修交 (friendship), 修好 (friendship). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しゅう"う (boating, circle tour by ship, circumnavigation, condense, disgracefulconduct, friendship, going into commission, navigation, sailing, shameful behavior), "うぎ (authorities, broader application, equity, fine workmanship, friendship, government, imperial court, just view, justice, kindness or favour, lecture, objection, official, protest, public affairs, public opinion, shogunate government, skill, warm friendship, wide sense, your kindness), ゆう"う (availability, companionship, effectiveness, fragrance, friendship, merit, validity, wander). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | amityay amizade (acquaintanceship, affection, amicability, attachment, develop a friendship, fellowship, friendship), relações amistosas. (various references) amiciţie (friendliness, friendship), prietenie (amicability, friendliness, friendship, good feeling, kindliness, kindness, neighborliness, neighbourliness). (various references) согласие (accord, accordance, acquiescence, agreement, assent, chime, compliance, concert, concord, concordance, concurrence, consensus, consent, consonance, entente, oneness, unison, unity). (various references) prijateljstvo (friendliness, friendship). (various references) amistad (amicability, camaraderie, comradeship, concord, friendliness, friendship, relationship), concordia (agreement, concord, concordance, oneness). (various references) vänskapligt förhållande, vänskap (amiability, amicability, friendship). (various references) arkadaşlık (association, camaraderie, companionship, company, comradeship, fellowship, friendliness, friendship, good fellowship), iyi ilişki, dostluk (attachment, camaraderie, friendliness, friendship, good fellowship, neighborliness, neighbourliness), dostça ilişki (rapport). (various references) приязність, дружні стосунки, дружелюбність (amiability, amicability, friendliness, friendship, neighborliness, neighbourliness). (various references) tình hữu nghị (friendship), tình bằng hữu (fellowship), tình bạn (camaraderie, companionship, comradeship, fellowship, friendship), quan hệ thân thiện. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | amicus. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | âxshti. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "amity": calamity. (additional references) | |
| |
"Amity" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acity, aimey, aimy, Aith, aity, amath, amati, amay, Amcit, amet, amete, amint, amita, amith, amitty, amitys, ammity, amnity, Amoita, amot, Amotz, amut, aniti, anity, anmity, Anothy, antey, Antii, antity, Apiti, apity, aqit, arity, asity, Aviti, axity, azit, azmat, Azmitia, canity, emity, ility, imit, Kafity, mity, Zammit. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "amity" (pronounced a"mutē) |
| 5 | a" m u t ē | calamity. |
| 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-i-m-t-y" | |
-1 letter: mity. | |
-2 letters: aim, ait, ami, mat, may, tam, yam. | |
-3 letters: ai, am, at, ay, it, ma, mi, my, ta, ti, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-m-t-y" | |
+2 letters: amenity, aminity, anytime, cymatia, daytime, meatily, tympani. | |
+3 letters: almighty, antimony, antinomy, arythmia, arythmic, calamity, cymatium, daytimes, dynamist, dynamite, humanity, imparity, intimacy, limitary, mainstay, majority, maturity, megacity, military, minacity, minatory, modality, molality, molarity, morality, myotonia, mystical, mythical, playtime, ptyalism, ramosity, steamily, taleysim, toadyism, tympanic, tyramine, ultimacy. | |
+4 letters: admiralty, altimetry, amatively, ambiguity, amorality, amyotonia, animality, animately, animosity, anonymity, antimycin, antonymic, arythmias, cymbalist, diathermy, dithyramb, dynamists, dynamited, dynamiter, dynamites, dynamitic, enzymatic, estimably, formality, gymnastic, immutably, lathyrism, lymphatic, mainstays, malignity, maritally, martially, martyries, martyring, martyrize, maternity, matrimony, mediately, mediatory, mendacity, mentality, migratory, militancy, mortality, mountainy, multiyear, mundanity, mutuality, mydriatic, myopathic, myotonias, normality, nystagmic, optimally, palmistry, patrimony, playtimes, primality, ptyalisms, sympathin, sympatric, taxidermy, termitary, timocracy, toadyisms, tympanies, tympanist, tyramines, unanimity, zygomatic. | |
| 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)41 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)01000001 01101101 01101001 01110100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A m i t y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 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)3579758691 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Fiction 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Quotations: Speeches 10. Usage Frequency 11. Names: Company Usage 12. Cities | 13. Expressions 14. Expressions: Internet 15. Translations: Modern 16. Translations: Ancient | 17. Derivations 18. Rhymes 19. Anagrams 20. Orthography | 21. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.