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urbanicity

noun

Etymology

From urban + -icity.

  1. derived from *gʰerdʰ-✻ — “to encircle, enclose; a belt; an enclosure, fence”
  2. derived from urbānus — “of or belonging to a city, urban; of manners or style: like those of city dwellers: cultivated, polished, refined, sophisticated”
  3. borrowed from urbain — “belonging to a city, urban; courteous, refined, urbane”
  4. suffixed as urbanicity — “urban + icity”

Definitions

  1. The quality or fact of (an area) being urban.

  2. The degree to which a given geographical area is urban.

    • To assess this hypothesis, the urbanicity of a boy's place of residence was run against enlistment.
    • 2002: Heinz Häfner (ed), Risk and Protective Factors in Schizophrenia: Towards a Conceptual Model of the Disease Process A number of studies have associated urbanicity at birth or upbringing with schizophrenia risk.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA