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Definitions: Majority |
MajorityNoun1. The property resulting from being or relating to the greater in number of two parts; the main part; "the majority of his customers prefer it"; "the bulk of the work is finished". 2. (in an election) more than half of the votes. 3. The age at which a person is considered competent to manage their own affairs. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "majority" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
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Literature | Majority He has joined the majority. He is dead. Blair says, in his Grave, " 'tis long since Death had the majority." "Abiit ad plures;" "Quin prius me ad plures penetravi" (Plautus; Trinummus, line 14). "Beatos eos fore, quando cum pluribus habitarint." (See Polybius, viii. xxx. 7.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonyms: MajoritySynonyms: absolute majority (n), bulk (n), legal age (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: minority (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Adolescence | Verb: come of age, come to man's estate, come to years of discretion; attain majority, assume the toga virilis; have cut one's eyeteeth, have sown one's mild oats. |
Noun: adolescence, pubescence, majority; adultism; adultness; Adjective: manhood, virility, maturity full age, ripe age; flower of age; prime of life, meridian of life, spring of life. | |
Death | Pay the debt to nature, shuffle off this mortal coil, take one's last sleep; go the way of all flesh; hand in one's checks, pass in one's checks, hand in one's chips, pass in one's chips; join the greater number, join the majority; come to dust, turn to dust; cross the Stygian ferry, cross the bar; go to one's long account, go to one's last home, go to Davy Jones's locker, go to the wall; receive one's death warrant, make one's will, step out, die a natural death, go out like the snuff of a candle; come to an untimely end; catch one's death; go off the hooks, kick the bucket, buy the farm, hop the twig, turn up one's toes; die a violent death. (be killed). |
Multitude | Greater number, majority; multiplication, multiple. |
Plurality | Noun: plurality; a number, a certain number; one or two, two or three; a few, several; multitude; majority. |
Superiority | Noun: superiority, majority; greatness; advantage; pull; preponderance, preponderation; vantage ground, prevalence, partiality; personal superiority; nobility; (rank); Triton among the minnows, primus inter pares, nulli secundus, captain; crackajack. |
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Screenplays | Yeah, but we want to hear it, and there's more of us than you. We're a community, like, a majority vote. (A Hard Day's Night; writing credit: Alun Owen) Here's my one basic truth: the majority of people in this world are stupid. (Chain Camera; writing credit: Balinda DeSantis; Todd Thompson) Patriotism and Collectivism are used to make the majority serve the few. (The Gate of Heavenly Peace; writing credit: John Crowley) They're mocking my Majority. (M*A*S*H; writing credit: Larry Gelbart) | |
Lyrics | Down with the moral majority ("Minority"; performing artist: Green Day) Have you no idea how the Majority feels ? ("Sowing The Seeds of Love"; performing artist: Tears For Fears) | |
Clever | Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. (references; author: Mark Twain) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Majority Rules (1949) Oral Majority 7 (1989) Immoral Majority (1986) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The moral majority Family values Right to life.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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Benjamin Disraeli | A majority is always better than the best repartee. |
Brian Moore | The silent majority distrusts people who believe in causes. |
Denis Diderot | Fools have been and always will be the majority of mankind. |
Frederick Douglass | One and God make a majority. |
Henrik Ibsen | A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong. |
| The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right. | |
John Kenneth Galbraith | In economics the majority is always wrong. |
John Knox | A man with God is always in the majority. |
Petronius | He has gone over to the majority. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings. |
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Magna Carta | 1215 | Further, in all matters, the execution of which is entrusted,to these twenty five barons, if perchance these twenty five are present and disagree about anything, or if some of them, after being summoned, are unwilling or unable to be present, that which the majority of those present ordain or command shall be held as fixed and established, exactly as if the whole twenty five had concurred in this; and the said twenty five shall swear that they will faithfully observe all that is aforesaid, and cause it to be observed with all their might. (reference) |
John Locke | 1690 | And thus that, which begins and actually constitutes any political society, is nothing but the consent of any number of freemen capable of a majority to unite and incorporate into such a society. (Second Treatise of Government) |
US Constitution | 1791 | But in chusing the President, the Votes shall be taken by States, the Representation from each State having one Vote; A quorum for this Purpose shall consist of a Member or Members from two thirds of the States, and a Majority of all the States shall be necessary to a Choice. (reference) |
Amendment to US Constitution | 1795-1992 | But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice. (reference) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | That culture, the loss of which he laments, is, for the enormous majority, a mere training to act as a machine. (reference) |
The Emancipation Proclamation | 1862 | "That the executive will on the 1st day of January aforesaid, by proclamation, designate the States and parts of States, if any, in which the people thereof, respectively, shall then be in rebellion against the United States; and the fact that any State or the people thereof shall on that day be in good faith represented in the Congress of the United States by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such States shall have participated shall, in the absence of strong countervailing testimony, be deemed conclusive evidence that such State and the people thereof are not then in rebellion against the United States." (Abraham Lincoln) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Its decisions shall be taken by a majority. (reference) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | This legacy, deposited in the hands of a third party, was to be given up to Cosette at her majority or at the time of her marriage. |
Time Enough for Love | Robert Heinlein | If a person had time enough, he could love all of that majority who are decent and just. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | The General came into the same opinion, so that for a long time there was a majority against you. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Granted that the majority are able at last either to own or hire the modern house with all its improvements. |
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Health | ACC does not cause death in the majority of patients. (references) | |
Preterm infants account for the majority of all neonatal deaths. (references) | ||
Once gallstone symptoms appear, they recur in the majority of patients. (references) | ||
Business | Manufacturers do not make the majority of draperies. (references) | |
These imports form the majority part of 'gray' market. (references) | ||
Samsung Corp. Holds a majority equity stake (27.5 percent). (references) | ||
Children | Brazil | Some are homeless, but the majority returned home at night. (references) |
Macau | School attendance is not compulsory; however, the vast majority of residents' children attend school. (references) | |
Philippines | Some 60 percent of the girls were victims of sexual abuse, while the majority of the boys had been abandoned or neglected. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | India | In Christian majority areas, Christians sometimes are the oppressors. (references) |
Brunei | These actions are regarded by the majority of citizens as upholding Islam. (references) | |
Austria | The overwhelming majority of all Bosnian refugees have been integrated into the labor market. (references) | |
Discrimination | Afghanistan | Historically the minority Shi'a faced discrimination from the majority Sunni population. (references) |
Burkina Faso | Minority ethnic groups, like the majority Mossi, are represented in the inner circles of the Government, and government decisions do not favor one group over another. (references) | |
Economic History | Senegal | Local majority ownership is not necessary. (references) |
Human Rights | Ireland | Its verdicts are by majority vote. (references) |
Yugoslavia | A non-international majority panel convicted one defendant. (references) | |
Colombia | The great majority involved violations of the right to life. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Jordan | Many persons of East Bank origin complain that the dynamic private sector largely is in the hands of the Palestinian majority. (references) |
Mexico | Indigenous people are located principally in the central and southern regions and represent a majority in the states of Oaxaca (53 percent) and Yucatan (52 percent). (references) | |
Nicaragua | Government health care exists in the Atlantic towns of Puerto Cabezas, Siuna, and Bluefields, but a majority of indigenous people in rural areas have no access to modern health care. (references) | |
Minorities | Guinea | No single ethnic group constitutes a majority nationwide. (references) |
Liberia | No ethnic group constitutes a majority of the population. (references) | |
Madagascar | None of these groups constitutes a majority of the population. (references) | |
Political Economy | Russia | On most issues, pro-government forces hold a majority. (references) |
Kenya | KANU also holds a majority of seats (119) in the assembly. (references) | |
Colombia | Guerrillas also were responsible for the majority of kidnapings. (references) | |
Political Rights | Honduras | In the Congressional elections, neither major party won a majority. (references) |
Haiti | If no candidate receives a majority, a second round runoff is required. (references) | |
Bhutan | Voting is by secret ballot, with a simple majority needed to pass a measure. (references) | |
Trade | Romania | For the majority of goods, no export license is required. (references) |
France | The French government has sold its majority equity stakes in major banks and insurance companies. (references) | |
Armenia | Corporate resources: a majority of Armenian companies are experiencing a critical shortage of funds. (references) | |
Travel | Canada | English is the language spoken in the geographical majority of the country and is also the generally accepted language of business. (references) |
Armenia | Corruption is a factor in the majority of state organizations in Armenia, including such enforcement bodies as the police and customs departments. (references) | |
Pakistan | The Karachi International School and the significantly smaller Lahore American School, both with a majority Pakistani student body, also offer K-12 classes. (references) | |
Women | Portugal | Women make up a slight majority of university graduates. (references) |
South Africa | In the large majority of rape cases, the perpetrator goes unpunished. (references) | |
Nicaragua | Women are generally underpaid, but the majority of women have some type of employment. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Ethiopia | Strikes must be supported by a majority of the workers affected. (references) |
Sao Tome and Principe | Public sector employees still make up the great majority of wage earners. (references) | |
Nicaragua | The Labor Code requires a majority vote of all the workers in an enterprise to call a strike. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | HADES, n. The lower world; the residence of departed spirits; the place where the dead live. Among the ancients the idea of Hades was not synonymous with our Hell, many of the most respectable men of antiquity residing there in a very comfortable kind of way. Indeed, the Elysian Fields themselves were a part of Hades, though they have since been removed to Paris. When the Jacobean version of the New Testament was in process of evolution the pious and learned men engaged in the work insisted by a majority vote on translating the Greek word "Aides" as "Hell"; but a conscientious minority member secretly possessed himself of the record and struck out the objectional word wherever he could find it. At the next meeting, the Bishop of Salisbury, looking over the work, suddenly sprang to his feet and said with considerable excitement: "Gentlemen, somebody has been razing 'Hell' here!" Years afterward the good prelate's death was made sweet by the reflection that he had been the means (under Providence) of making an important, serviceable and immortal addition to the phraseology of the English tongue. |
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Al Hunt | Mr. Leader, we're going to take a break. But when we come back, we'll ask Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle about his former colleague Attorney General John Ashcroft. |
Dennis Miller | Hey, the majority of any group is law-abiding. |
Mark Shields | All right, Congressman Watts, Majority Leader Dick Armey has announced his intention to retire from the House, and Tom DeLay of Texas, the whip, is expected to succeed him. |
Representative Dick Gephardt | Well, I've been talking to my members over the last few weeks. We were obviously disappointed we didn't get the progress we wanted, but we made progress for the third time in a row and we're now within just a handful of votes of taking back the majority. |
Robert Novak | Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle was asked if he agreed with Senator Byrd, and he said absolutely. And then he said the things that we had at the beginning of this program. |
Robert Shapiro | I came into the case, and I went to Washington. And I started talking to political leaders. And eventually, we were able to get the support of then Majority Leader Trent Lott, who sent the letter to Attorney General Ashcroft. |
Rush Limbaugh | Now, according to Stevens, the majority cast a pall over the credibility of judges, in this case state court judges as impartial guardians of the rule of law. |
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George Washington | 1789-1797 | In a majority of the States scarcely an objection was heard to this mode of taxation. |
Abraham Lincoln | 1861-1865 | A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | Within the framework of the wage-price policy there has been definite success, and it is to be expected that this success will continue in a vast majority of the cases arising in the months ahead. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | I am so grateful that I have been supported daily by the loyalty of Speaker McCormack and Majority Leader Albert. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | Again, I wish my successor, working with a substantial majority of his own party, the best of success in reforming the costly and cumbersome machinery of the Federal Government. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | The focus of our efforts in pursuit of majority rule in southern Africa has now turned to Namibia. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | This legislation is supported by a majority of you. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | Majority Leader, the Congress and the Executive were capable of working together to produce a budget on which this nation could live. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Especially, I recall two who struggled to fight that Cold War in partnership with congresses where the majority was of a different party. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | Small businesses create the majority of new jobs in America, and they account for half the output of the economy. |
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| "Majority" is generally used as a noun (common) -- approximately 99.93% of the time. "Majority" is used about 9,961 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 (common) | 99.93% | 9,954 | 942 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.06% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 9,961 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "majority": a thumping majority ♦ absolute majority ♦ age of majority ♦ attain one's majority ♦ be in the majority ♦ by a majority ♦ by absolute majority ♦ clear majority ♦ double majority ♦ in the majority ♦ landslide majority ♦ majority carrier ♦ majority carrier correction method ♦ majority choice ♦ majority control ♦ majority decision ♦ majority element ♦ majority gate ♦ majority holding ♦ majority interest ♦ majority leader ♦ majority of the children ♦ majority of votes ♦ majority operation ♦ majority opinion ♦ majority ownership ♦ majority rule ♦ majority shareholder ♦ majority shareholding ♦ majority stockholder ♦ moral majority ♦ narrow majority ♦ overwhelming majority ♦ parliament majority ♦ relative majority ♦ silent majority ♦ simple majority ♦ the great majority ♦ the majority ♦ to go over to the majority ♦ to join the majority ♦ vast majority ♦ whip together a majority ♦ working majority. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "majority": majority-muslim, majority-owned, majority-rule, majority-ruled, majority-serbian. | |
Ending with "majority": hindu-majority, mass-majority, qualified-majority, simple-majority, sinhalese-majority. | |
| 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 |
american institute majority | 70 |
moral majority | 45 |
age of majority | 45 |
majority | 33 |
majority rule | 26 |
house leader majority | 24 |
feminist majority | 23 |
majority true | 21 |
silent majority | 19 |
vocal majority | 17 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "majority"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | moshë madhore (adulthood), shumicë (host, lot, mass, masses, orgy, plurality, preponderance, quantity, superabundance, the million, thousand, weight), pjesë më i madhe (mass). (various references) | |
Arabic | حزب الأكثرية, سن الرشد (puberty), الأكثرية, الأ غلبية, أغلبية (lump, plurality). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | мнозинство (generality), майорски ранг, майорски чин, мажоритарен, болшинство (plurality), пълнолетие (lawful age, manhood). (various references) | |
Catalan | majoria. (various references) | |
Chinese | 多数人 (Majorities), 多數 (most), 大多數 . (various references) | |
Czech | vìtšina (major the part, most), plnoletost, dospìlost (adulthood, manhood, matureness, maturity). (various references) | |
Danish | flertal (majority group). (various references) | |
Dutch | meerderjarigheid, meerderheid (majority group, upper hand). (various references) | |
Esperanto | majoritato, plimulto. (various references) | |
Farsi | اکثریت (Bulk), بیشین (Maximum), بیشان . (various references) | |
Finnish | valtaosa (the bulk), täysi-ikäisyys (age), enemmistö (majority group, the greater part). (various references) | |
French | majorité. (various references) | |
German | mehrheit (majority group, plurality). (various references) | |
Greek | πλειονότητα, πλειοψηφία (plural). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מרבית (greater part, most), בכירות (seniority), ב'רות (adulthood, manhood, matriculation, maturity), רוב קולות (plurality), רוב (abundance, most, multitude, plenty, plethora), רבים (many, numerous, plural). (various references) | |
Hungarian | többség (great mass, plurality), szótöbbség. (various references) | |
Indonesian | mayoritas, terbanyak (more, most, the greatest number), kebanyakan (largely, most of, ordinary, too much). (various references) | |
Irish | formhór. (various references) | |
Italian | maggioranza (most). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 過半数 , マシン油 (barowner, machine oil, magic, magic glass, magic hand, magic ink marker, magic mirror, magic number, Magic Tape, magical, magician, majolica, Majorca, manager, manipulator, mascara, mascot, masculine, mask, masker, masking, mass, mass communication, mass consumption, mass democracy, mass fashion, mass game, mass media, mass production, mass sales, mass screening, Masscomp, mast, master, master course, master file, master key, master plan, master tape, masterpiece, Masters Golf Tournament, masturbation, mazurka, muscat, mustard, proprietor, serious, to jerk off, to masturbate), 成年 (adult age), 多数 (countless, great number), 大部分 (greater part, most part), 大半 (generally, mostly), 大方 (almost all, perhaps), 丁年 (adulthood, age 20). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | たすう (countless, great number), たいは" (generally, mostly), おおかた (almost all, perhaps), マジョリティー , せいね" (adult age, age, prime of life, the year of a person's birth, young man, youth), かは"すう, ていね" (adulthood, age 20, age limit, retirement age, retiring age), いぶぶ" (greater part, most part). (various references) | |
Korean | 대다수 (Majorities). (various references) | |
Manx | tromlagh (heavyish, slow-witted), mooar-eash, mooar-earroo, lane eash. (various references) | |
Papiamen | mayoria. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ajoritymay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | maioria (body, plus), maioridade (adulthood, full container load). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | maioria. (various references) | |
Romanian | majoritate (body, generality, plurality), majorat (age, full age), grad de maior, cea mai mare parte (bulk, mass, the best part). (various references) | |
Russian | большинство (feck, generality, major, most of, the better part, the many). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | majorski čin, većina (most, plurality), punoletstvo (legal age). (various references) | |
Spanish | mayoría (plurality). (various references) | |
Swedish | majoritet, flertal (plural). (various references) | |
Thai | เสียงข้างมาก, ส่วนใหญ่ (major, most), ซึ่งเป็นส่วนใหญ่. (various references) | |
Turkish | yetişkinlik (adulthood), reşitlik (adulthood), ekseriyet (bulk, plurality), çoğunluk (bulk, generality, plurality, predominance, preponderance, ruck, run, the crowd). (various references) | |
Ukranian | більшість (general, mass), повноліття (age, emancipation). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | phần lớn (most), phần đông (generality, plurality), h m thiếu tá về với tổ tiên. (various references) | |
Welsh | mwyafrif. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
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Words ending with "majority": supermajority. (additional references) | |
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"Majority" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: majoity, majorish, majorit, Megarity, mojority, Nagoreti, Pajarito. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "majority" (pronounced mujô"rutē) |
| 5 | -ô" r u t ē | authority, inferiority, minority, priority, seniority, sorority, superiority. |
| 4 | -r u t ē | alacrity, austerity, barbarity, celebrity, charity, clarity, dexterity, disparity, dissimilarity, familiarity, hilarity, immaturity, impurity, insecurity, insularity, integrity, irregularity, maturity, mediocrity, obscurity, parity, particularity, peculiarity, polarity, popularity, posterity, prosperity, purity, rarity, regularity, security, severity, similarity, sincerity, solidarity, supermajority, surety, temerity, unfamiliarity, unpopularity, Verity, vulgarity. |
| 3 | -u t ē | ability, abnormality, absurdity, acceptability, accessibility, accountability, acidity, activity, actuality, acuity, adaptability, admissibility, adversity, advisability, affinity, affordability, aggressivity, agility, alkalinity, ambiguity, amenity, amiability, amity, analyticity, animosity, annuity, anonymity, antiquity, anxiety, applicability, atrocity, audacity, authenticity, availability, banality, believability, bestiality, biodiversity, bisexuality, brevity, brutality, calamity, capability, capacity, captivity, causality, cavity, centrality, chastity, civility, collegiality, commodity, commonality, community, comparability, compatibility, complexity, complicity, comprehensibility, conditionality, conductivity, confidentiality, conformity, congeniality, congruity, connectivity, constitutionality, continuity, convertibility, creativity, credibility, credulity, criminality, criticality, crotchety, culpability, curiosity, cyclicality, debility, deductibility, deformity, deity, deniability, density, dependability, depravity, deputy, desirability, dignity, dimensionality, disability, discontinuity, disunity, diversity, divinity, docility, domesticity, duality, ductility, duplicity, durability, eccentricity, elasticity, electability, electricity, eligibility, enforceability, enmity, enormity, entity, equality, equanimity, equity, eternity, ethnicity, eventuality, exclusivity, expressivity, extraterritoriality, extremity, facility, fallibility, falsity, 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, homogeneity, homosexuality, hospitality, hostility, humanity, humidity, humility, hyperactivity, hypersensitivity, identity, illegality, illiquidity, immobility, immorality, immortality, immunity, impartiality, impersonality, impossibility, impropriety, impunity, inability, inaccessibility, inactivity, incapacity, incivility, incompatibility, incongruity, incredulity, indemnity, indestructibility, indignity, individuality, inequality, inequity, inevitability, infallibility, infertility, infidelity, infinity, infirmity, inflexibility, informality, ingenuity, inhumanity, insanity, insensitivity, instability, instrumentality, intensity, invincibility, invisibility, invulnerability, irrationality, irresponsibility, irritability, laity, laxity, legality, legibility, lethality, levity, liability, liberality, liquidity, lividity, locality, longevity, malleability, maneuverability, marketability, masculinity, materiality, maternity, mendacity, mentality, miscibility, mobility, modality, modernity, monstrosity, morality, morbidity, mortality, motility, multiplicity, municipality, musicality, mutuality, nationality, nativity, necessity, negativity, neutrality, nobility, Nonconformity, nonentity, nonutility, normality, notoriety, nudity, obesity, objectivity, obscenity, oddity, opacity, opportunity, originality, overcapacity, oversensitivity, palatability, partiality, passivity, paternity, paucity, permeability, perpetuity, perplexity, personality, perversity, piety, plausibility, plurality, polity, pomposity, portability, possibility, practicality, predictability, principality, probability, probity, proclivity, productivity, profanity, profitability, progressivity, promiscuity, propensity, proportionality, propriety, proximity, publicity, punctuality, quality, quantity, radioactivity, rapidity, rationality, reactivity, readability, reality, receptivity, reciprocity, reflexivity, relativity, reliability, religiosity, respectability, responsibility, retroactivity, rickety, rigidity, salinity, sanctity, sanity, scarcity, seasonality, selectivity, senility, sensibility, sensitivity, sensuality, sentimentality, serendipity, serenity, sexuality, simplicity, sobriety, society, solemnity, solidity, speciality, specificity, spirituality, spontaneity, stability, sterility, stupidity, subjectivity, suitability, superconductivity, superfluidity, survivability, susceptibility, sustainability, technicality, tenacity, theatricality, timidity, tonality, totality, toxicity, tranquility, transferability, Trinity, triviality, turbidity, ubiquity, unanimity, unavailability, uniformity, unity, universality, university, unpredictability, unreality, unreliability, uppity, utility, validity, vanity, variability, variety, varsity, velocity, velvety, venality, veracity, versatility, viability, vicinity, virginity, virility, virtuosity, viscosity, visibility, vitality, volatility, voracity, vulnerability. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-j-m-o-r-t-y" | |
-3 letters: amity, amort, atomy, joram, major, mayor, moira, moray, ratio, rioja, tryma. | |
-4 letters: airt, airy, amir, army, arty, atom, iota, jato, jiao, jota, mair, mart, mayo, miry, mity, moat, mora, mort, omit, rami, rato, rimy, riot, roam, rota, roti, ryot, taro, tiro, tora, tori, tory, tram, tray, trim, trio, troy, tyro. | |
-5 letters: aim, air, ait, ami, arm, art, jam, jar, jay, jot, joy, mar, mat, may, mir, moa, mor, mot, oar, oat, ora, ort, raj, ram, rat, ray, ria, rim, rom, rot, rya, taj, tam, tao, tar, tom, tor, toy, try, yam, yar, yom. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-j-m-o-r-t-y" | |
+5 letters: supermajority. | |
| 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)4D 61 6A 6F 72 69 74 79 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- .- .--- --- .-. .. - -.--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100001 01101010 01101111 01110010 01101001 01110100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a j o r i t y |
| ISO 10646 (1991-1993) ( |
