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Definition: Minority |
MinorityNoun1. A group of people who differ racially or politically from a larger group of which it is a part. 2. Being or relating to the smaller in number of two parts; "when the vote was taken they were in the minority"; "he held a minority position". 3. Any age prior to the legal age. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "minority" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1517. (references) |
Etymology: Minority \Mi*nor"i*ty\, noun; plural Minorities. [Compare to French minorit['e]. See Minor, adjective. & noun]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Diversity | Term used to describe a group that represents a relatively smaller percentage of the overall population of a nation/state/ continent etc. . . (references) |
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Edward VI (October 12, 1537 - July 6, 1553) was King of England from January 28 (crowned at Westminster Abbey on February 20), 1547 to July 6,1553.
Edward VI
King of England, Ireland and FranceEdward VI, the only surviving son of King Henry VIII was England's first protestant king. Though his father had broken the link between English Catholicism and Rome, it was in Edward's reign that the decisive move was made from catholicism to a form of protestantism which came to be known as Anglicanism.
Edward VI was born on October 12, 1537, the son of Jane Seymour, who died a few days later. The boy's father, Henry VIII, was delighted by his birth, but devastated by the death of his third wife. Henry had long hoped for a male heir, but the boy turned out to be sickly (in fact, Edward suffered from congenital syphilis, passed on by his father) and he was not expected to have a long life, leading Henry to re-marry quickly in the hope of fathering more healthy children.
When Edward came to the throne at age nine, his uncle, Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset (1506 - 1552), became regent, consigning the boy to a purely ceremonial role. The story of Edward's reign is that of a number of nobles attempting to take over as Lord Protector. Somerset was removed from office by the efforts of John Dudley, Earl of Warwick and later Duke of Northumberland. The latter took power, and Seymour was executed for treason. The other major figure of Edward's reign was Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, who forged ahead with the Protestant impetus begun during the reign of Edward's father. The first prayer book in English was published in 1548 - the Book of Common Prayer.
By the time of his death, on July 6, 1553, Edward was enough the master of his own destiny to have concerns about the succession. He had been brought up a Protestant and had no wish to see England revert to Catholicism. This led him to support the claim to the throne of Northumberland's daughter-in-law and puppet, Lady Jane Grey, against his own half-sister, Mary.
King Edward VI is buried at Westminster Abbey.
He is the subject of historical fiction novel "The Prince and the Pauper"- 1881 by Mark Twain. Edward is the Prince of the title.The Pauper is Tom Canty, a look-alike of Edward born in a poor family of London on the same day as Edward: October 12, 1537. The book at first examines their parallel lives, one in poverty and one in riches, until the fatal day that the two boys meet and end up changing places for a while between January 27 and February 20 of 1547. Edward is introduced to the life of poverty and to social injustice and Tom to the thrown and the intrigues of the court. The boys change places again on the day of Edward's coronation. Tom stays by Edward's side as a favorite of the young King who now has a stronger sense of responsibility to his poor subjects for the rest of his short life.
Preceded by:
Henry VIIIList of British monarchs Succeeded by:
(Jane)Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Edward VI of England."
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The People's Republic of China officially recognizes 56 ethnic groups, or Mínzú (民族), sometimes translated as nationalities, within China: the Han being the majority (>92%), and the rest 55 ethnicities being the minorities. Chinese ethnic group theory is heavily influenced by that of the Soviet Union and officially China is considered a multi-ethnic (multinational) country. Official policy is against assimilation and maintains that each ethnic group should have the right to develop its own culture and language.
The degree of integration of minority ethnic groups with the national community varies widely from group to group. With some groups, such as the Tibetans and the Uighurs there is a great deal of resentment against the majority. Other groups such as the Zhuang, Hui Chinese, and ethnic Koreans are well integrated into the national community.
In order of population these are:
- Han (汉族)
- Zhuang (壮族)
- Manchu (满族)
- Hui (回族)
- Miao (苗族)
- Uighur (维吾尔族)
- Yi (彝族)
- Tujia (土家族)
- Mongol (蒙古族)
- Tibetan (藏族)
- Buyi (布依族)
- Dong (侗族)
- Yao (瑶族)
- Korean (朝鲜族)
- Bai (白族)
- Hani (哈尼族)
- Li (黎族)
- Kazakh (哈萨克族)
- Dai (傣族, also called Dai Lue, one of Thai ethnic groups)
- She (畲族)
- Lisu (傈僳族)
- Gelao (仡佬族)
- Lahu (拉祜族)
- Dongxiang (东乡族)
- Wa (佤族) (Va)
- Shui (水族)
- Naxi (纳西族) (includes the Mosuo (摩梭))
- Qiang (羌族)
- Du (土族)
- Xibe (锡伯族)
- Mulam (仫佬族)
- Kirghiz (柯尔克孜族)
- Daur (达斡尔族)
- Jingpo (景颇族)
- Salar (撒拉族)
- Blang (布朗族 Bulang)
- Maonan (毛南族)
- Tajik (塔吉克族)
- Pumi (普米族)
- Achang (阿昌族)
- Nu (怒族)
- Evenki (鄂温克族)
- Gin (京族 Jing1)
- Jino (基诺族)
- De'ang (德昂族)
- Uzbek (乌孜别克族)
- Russian (俄罗斯族)
- Yugur (裕固族)
- Bonan (保安族)
- Menba (门巴族)
- Oroqin (鄂伦春族)
- Drung (独龙族)
- Tatar (塔塔尔族)
- Hezhen (赫哲族)
- Lhoba (珞巴族)
- Gaoshan (高山族) (Taiwanese aborigine)
Religions
Note that some of these ethnic groups hold belief systems that cannot be distinctly classified based upon the following system.
See also:
- Islam: the Bonan, Dongxiang, Hui, Kazak, Kirgiz, Salar, Tajik, Tatar, Uygur and Uzbek.
- Buddhism: the Dai, Mongolian, Naxi (including Mosuo), Tibetan and Yugun.
- Shamanism: the Daurs, Ewenkis, and Oroqens.
- Demographics of China
- Languages of China
- Chinese ethnic groups of the past
- Zhonghua minzu
- List of ethnic groups
External link
- Ethnic minority: by PRC government in the UN in New York
- Photos: by an elderly Oregonian couple
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "List of Chinese ethnic groups."
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In sociology and in voting theory, a minority is a group that is outnumbered by persons who do not belong to it, often people with different nationality, religion, culture or lifestyle from that of the mainstream in the society.
In recent decades the term minority has taken on a newer meaning: a group with lower social status rather than small numerical scale. For instance, while numerically women outnumber men in most societies, in many of them they are a minority in the newer sense of the word given their inferior social rights compared with men.
A majority is a group that outnumbers its non-members, or, in the newer sense of the word, has a higher social status.
In politics, a minority is an ethnic group that is recognised as such by respective laws of their home country and therefore has some rights that ethnic groups not so recognised don't have (for example, its members might have education and/or communication with the government in their mother tongue). Not every ethnic group that is a minority in social sense is a minority in political sense: some are too small or too indistinct to validate costs of providing these rights, and some are so large or historically or otherwise important that they are one of constitutive nations.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Minority."
Synonym: MinoritySynonym: nonage (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: majority (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Fewness | Noun: fewness; Adjective: paucity, small number; rarity; infrequency; handful, maniple; minority; exiguity. |
Inferiority | Noun: inferiority, minority, subordinacy; shortcoming, deficiency; minimum; smallness; imperfection; lower quality, lower worth. |
Youth | Noun: youth; juvenility, juvenescence; juniority; infancy; babyhood, childhood, boyhood, girlhood, youthhood; incunabula; minority, nonage, teens, tender age, bloom. |
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Screenplays | Just walk right into Precrime, go into the Temple, somehow tap into the Precogs, and then download this Minority Report (Minority Report; writing credit: Scott Frank) A ruthless minority of people seem to have forgotten good old-fashioned virtues (Brazil; writing credit: Terry Gilliam; Charles McKeown) Warms my black heart to see you so concerned about us minority folks (Shaft; writing credit: Ernest Tidyman;) Here's the minority vote (Gangs of New York; writing credit: Jay Cocks) I call it instant minority. (Joe's Apartment; writing credit: John Payson) | |
Lyrics | 'Cause I want to be the minority (Minority; performing artist: Green Day) I want to be the minority (Minority; performing artist: Green Day) | |
Song Titles | Minority (performing artist: Green Day) | |
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 | African American farmer Theodore Nesmith (L) talks with Ricky Morrow of USDA's Federal Crop Insurance program, and Vaughn Nesmith (R), as Latif Timmons looks on. Morrow was on this South Carolina farm as part of the outreach program to educate minority farmers about crop insurance programs. Credit: USDA. |  | Minority cause shouting "organized propaganda" at Congress. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | I may not be leading the minority procession but --. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | A new era for women workers, minority women and lesbians. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Henrik Ibsen | A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong. |
| The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right. | |
Leo Baeck | A minority is always compelled to think. That is the blessing of being in the minority. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Shall we judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. |
Thomas Carlyle | Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one. |
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John Locke | 1690 | This ends not with minority, but holds in all parts and conditions of a man's life. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Brown v. Board of Education | 1954 | Segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race deprives children of the minority group of equal educational opportunities, even though the physical facilities and other "tangible" factors may be equal. (reference) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The experience of minority group members with TBI should be studied. (references) | |
At present, breast conservation therapy is used in a minority of patients. (references) | ||
Some autoimmune diseases occur more frequently in certain minority populations. (references) | ||
Business | Foreign investment in such joint ventures is limited to a minority stake. (references) | |
Government development policies have helped improve minority living standards. (references) | ||
In certain other sectors, foreign investment may be limited to a minority position. (references) | ||
Children | Bosnia and Herzegovina | At times minority children are barred from attending school. (references) |
Bulgaria | Fewer girls than boys attended school, especially among minority groups. (references) | |
Burma | In ethnic minority areas, the army often has banned teaching in local languages. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Pakistan | Parties and groups with religious affiliations target minority groups. (references) |
Azerbaijan | Some officials at times discriminated against members of minority religions. (references) | |
India | All of these proposals are opposed strongly by some minority religious groups. (references) | |
Discrimination | Afghanistan | Historically the minority Shi'a faced discrimination from the majority Sunni population. (references) |
Belarus | Women, persons with disabilities, and minority religious groups experienced discrimination. (references) | |
Bangladesh | Women, children, minority groups, and persons with disabilities often confront social and economic disadvantages. (references) | |
Economic History | Honduras | Religions: Roman Catholic, Protestant minority. (references) |
Dominican Republic | Haitians form the largest foreign minority group. (references) | |
Chad | Maestria holds a minority stake in Tchadipeint, a paint manufacturer. (references) | |
Human Rights | China | Minority activists continued to be targets of the police. (references) |
Hungary | In June the Minority Affairs Ombudsman was reelected for a second 6-year term. (references) | |
Comoros | On Anjouan local authorities continued to attempt to suppress or convert the Christian minority. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Japan | A nonbinding accompanying resolution referred to the Ainu as a legal Japanese minority. (references) |
Japan | In 1997 the Sapporo District Court ruled that the Ainu were a minority aboriginal race, and later that year, the Diet passed the Law to Promote Ainu Culture. (references) | |
Japan | The law recognized the Ainu as an ethnic minority, and required all prefectural governments to develop basic programs for promoting Ainu culture and traditions. (references) | |
Minorities | Greece | The Muslim minority also includes Pomaks and Roma. (references) |
Slovak Republic | The largest minority group is the ethnic Hungarian minority. (references) | |
United Kingdom | LMP employed 1,158 minority police officers by the end the year. (references) | |
Political Economy | Denmark | Denmark has a history of minority governments. (references) |
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC | Only a minority of companies has collective bargaining pacts. (references) | |
EGYPT | Previously, foreign ownership was restricted to a minority stake. (references) | |
Political Rights | Albania | Ethnic Greeks constitute the largest minority group. (references) |
Cuba | A small minority of candidates did not belong formally to the Communist Party. (references) | |
Yugoslavia | Jozsef Kasza, a Hungarian minority party leader, is Serbian Deputy Prime Minister. (references) | |
Trade | Uzbekistan | Together with the NBU, they are minority shareholders in ABN-Amro Bank; the EBRD also has a minority stake in UzDaewooBank. (references) |
Bulgaria | EBF is permitted to invest from $500,000 to $4 million for up to 10 years in any single project and assumes a minority position (less than 50 percent). (references) | |
Eq. Guinea | Societe Generale de Banque of Equatorial Guinea (SGBGE) is majority owned by Societe Generale of France, with a minority ownership stake held by the Government of Equatorial Guinea. (references) | |
Travel | Vietnam | In building a consensus, it may prove impossible to "steamroller" the minority opinion, which must be wooed instead. (references) |
Italy | Italian is the official language and is spoken in all parts of Italy, although some minority groups in the Alto Adige and Aosta regions speak German and French, respectively. (references) | |
Women | Syria | Polygyny is legal but is practiced only by a small minority of Muslim men. (references) |
Worker Rights | Djibouti | Only a small minority of the population is engaged in wage employment. (references) |
Laos | In recent years, highland minority women from the interior of the country have become the group most vulnerable to traffickers. (references) | |
Pakistan | However, a significant minority of these children are abducted by traffickers in the country and sent abroad without the knowledge of their parents. (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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Dan Rather | I was in the minority. I thought the economy should be the lead, but I saw the strength of the other argument and we lead with the investigative story. |
Robert Novak | You know Mark, it's a lot more fun being majority leader than minority leader, and I think that Trent Lott knows it. I think he'd love to get back in there so he calls up the bills and not Tom Daschle. |
Rush Limbaugh | So when some minority who's a conservative comes along, and shows you can succeed without following the Democrat dance steps, the Democrats set out to smash that person. |
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Abraham Lincoln | 1861-1865 | If a minority in such case will secede rather than acquiesce, they make a precedent which in turn will divide and ruin them, for a minority of their own will secede from them whenever a majority refuses to be controlled by such minority. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | We have reorganized the Office of Minority Business into the Minority Business Development Administration in the Department of Commerce. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | More than one-half billion dollars has been proposed for minority business assistance. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | But a partisan minority in the Senate blocked reform. |
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| "Minority" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.88% of the time. "Minority" is used about 3,389 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) | 99.88% | 3,385 | 2,846 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.12% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3,389 | N/A |
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Expressions using "minority": be in a minority ♦ be in a minority of one ♦ minority government ♦ minority group ♦ Minority Groups ♦ minority holding ♦ minority interests ♦ minority leader ♦ minority party ♦ minority position ♦ minority programme ♦ minority shareholder ♦ minority stockholder. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "minority": minority-backed, minority-carrier, minority-carrier, minority-dominated, minority-interest, minority-led, minority-orientated, minority-related, minority-ruled. | |
Ending with "minority": ethnic-minority. | |
| 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 "minority"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | moshë jomadhore, mituri (nonage, pupilage), minoritet, pakicë (exiguity, few, fewness, paucity, tenuity). (various references) | |
Arabic | قصور شرعي, سن القصور (infancy, nonage), القصور كون المرء غير راشد, اقلية. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | от малцинство, непълнолетие (infancy, nonage, pupilage), на малцинство, малцинство, за малцинство, по-малко число. (various references) | |
Chinese | 少数 (few, Minorities, Paucity), 少數 (few, small number). (various references) | |
Czech | menšina, nezletilost (nonage, pupilage). (various references) | |
Danish | minoritet (minority group). (various references) | |
Dutch | minderjarigheid (infancy, nonage), minderheids-, minderheid (minority group). (various references) | |
Esperanto | minoritato, minoritata. (various references) | |
Farsi | کهین , عدم بلوغ (Imfancy), اقلیت , بخش کمتر. (various references) | |
Finnish | alaikäisyys (infancy, nonage). (various references) | |
French | minorité. (various references) | |
German | Minderheit (minority group), minorität (minority group), minderjährigkeit (infancy, nonage). (various references) | |
Greek | μειονότητα, μειοψηφία. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מעוט (limited, meagre, minimum, paucity, poor, scanty), קטי ות (nonage). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kiskorúság (infancy, nonage, pupilage), kisebbség. (various references) | |
Indonesian | golongan kecil. (various references) | |
Italian | minorit (nonage), minoranza. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | マイコプラズマ肺炎 (at one's own pace, budget reduction, Die Meistersinger, maestro, mild, mild inflation, mile, miler, miles, milestone, mime, mind, mind-control, mine, minor, minor change, Minor League, minor level, minus, mound, mount, mountain, mountain music, mounting, mouse, mouse unit, mouth, mouthpiece, movingicon, my pace, mycoplasma pneumonia, negative image, one'shome, one'shouse, personal computer), screwdriverdriver), something that a person is currently obsessed with or fascinated by), 未'年 (not of age), 未成年 (not of age), 未丁年 (under age), 少数派 (minority group), 少数 (few), 少数 (few). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | マイノリティー , しょうすうは (minority group), しょうすう (decimal, few, fraction), みせいね" (not of age), みていね" (under age). (various references) | |
Korean | 소수 민족 (Minorities). (various references) | |
Manx | mynlagh feiyral (vocal minority), mynlagh credjue (religious minority). (various references) | |
Papiamen | minoria. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | inoritymay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | menoridade (pupilage, wardship), minoria. (various references) | |
Romanian | minoritate (few), minorat (infancy, nonage). (various references) | |
Russian | несовершеннолетие (infancy, nonage), меньшинство...малая акция, меньшинство (the few). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | manjina. (various references) | |
Spanish | minoría (pupilage, pupillage). (various references) | |
Swedish | minoriteter, minoritet, mindretal, underårighet (infancy, nonage), omyndighet (pupilage), omyndig ålter, folkgrupp (national group). (various references) | |
Turkish | reşit olmama (nonage), azlık (exiguity, fewness, littleness, paucity, scantiness, scantness, scarcity, slimness, spareness, tightness), azinlik, azınlık. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | непівноліття, національна меншість, меншість (the few). (various references) | |
Welsh | lleiafrifol, lleiafrif. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
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Words ending with "minority": nonminority. (additional references) | |
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"Minority" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: milnerite, Miniprint, Minori, minoritie, minoritiy, monority, munroist. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "minority" (pronounced mīnô"rutē or munô"rutē) |
| 5 | -ô" r u t ē | authority, inferiority, majority, 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 | absurdity, acceptability, accessibility, ability, abnormality, 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, irresponsibility, irritability, laity, laxity, legality, 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, 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. |
| 5 | -ô" r u t ē | authority, inferiority, majority, 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 | absurdity, acceptability, accessibility, ability, abnormality, 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, irresponsibility, irritability, laity, laxity, legality, 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, 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 "i-i-m-n-o-r-t-y" | |
-3 letters: imino, intro, irony, minor, minty, nitro, torii. | |
-4 letters: inro, inti, into, iron, mini, mint, miri, miry, mity, mony, morn, mort, noir, nori, norm, omit, rimy, riot, roti, ryot, tiny, tiro, tony, tori, torn, tory, trim, trio, troy, tyin, tyro, yoni. | |
-5 letters: ion, mir, mon, mor, mot, nim, nit, nom, nor, not, ort, rim. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-i-m-n-o-r-t-y" | |
+2 letters: mortifying, uniformity. | |
+3 letters: importunity, informality, moribundity, nonmilitary, nonminority. | |
+4 letters: admonitorily, inconformity, intimidatory. | |
+5 letters: disconformity, impersonality, improvidently, incriminatory, informatively, informatorily, martyrization, matrimonially, microanalytic, microtonality, nonuniformity, premonitorily, recriminatory, rhythmization. | |
| 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. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Quotations: Historic | 9. Quotations: Non-fiction 10. Quotations: Spoken 11. Quotations: Speeches 12. Usage Frequency | 13. Expressions 14. Expressions: Internet 15. Translations: Modern 16. Derivations | 17. Rhymes 18. Anagrams 19. Bibliography |
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