seity

English

Etymology

Latin se (“oneself”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiːɪti/

Noun

seity (plural seities)

1. Something peculiar to oneself; personal peculiarity; individuality.
   • 1709-1711, The Tatler

     The learned Scotus , to distinguish the race of mankind, gives every individual of that species what he calls a Seity, something peculiar to himself, which makes him different from all other persons in the world

   • 1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, page 32:

     He was […] affected with trepidation, partial surdity, and most perceptible seity.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “seity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• yetis, yites