planetality
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From planet + -ality from Latin planeta, planetes, from Ancient Greek πλανήτης (planḗtēs, “wanderer”).
Noun
[edit]planetality (plural planetalities)
- (science fiction, rare) Membership of a particular planet or moon, by origin, birth, naturalization, ownership, allegiance or otherwise.
- 1980, Gordon R. Dickson, In Iron Years, →ISBN, page 38:
- He shifted his record board into the crook of his arm as he came up and punched for a new entry. "Name?" he said. "Place of departure? Planetality?
- 1996 June 13, Nicholas Lee, “Inter-religion relations - TAO/GOD same/different”, in alt.astrology[1] (Usenet):
- By 'static' above in describing the Sun Signs I mean that from a mundane view point the interactions between are relatively fixed (in a temporal sense), as opposed to the planetality archtypes which are constantly moving and interacting in different ways.
- 2015, Gerald Vance, Equation of Doom:
- He doubted if half a dozen Irwadians had mastered it, yet the Irwadi branch of Interstellar Transfer Service was made up of seventy-five hyper space pilots-of-divers planetalities.