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pacificity en · NOUN

Etymology

From pacific + -ity.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The quality of being pacific; peacefulness.
    • In the Alto Xingu, there is strong moral emphasis on respect for others, on self-control, and on pacificity. 2013, Penelope Harvey, Peter Gow -, Sex and Violence: Issues in Representation and Experience, page 90:
    • One of the quintessential values of the indigenous Ewe society is pacificity. 1976, Conflict and harmony in education in tropical Africa, page 85:
    • Hume's pacificity and neutrality contrast with Gibbon's combative attitude and his interest in subjective, personalized experience. 2014, Charlotte Roberts, Edward Gibbon and the Shape of History, page 170:
    • In addition, in FPHWP, I proposed “the multifaceted theory of war and peace” to understand war and peace, in a small sense—or aggression and pacificity, in a broad sense. 2012 -, Peter Baofu, The Future of Post-Human Waste, page 44: