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phoenixity en · NOUN

Etymology

From phoenix + -ity.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The quality of being like a phoenix, especially that of recovering from destruction, or possession of an otherworldly beauty.
    • No church in the Philippines can match the phoenixity of Ermita. 1980, Alejandro R. Roces, Fiesta, page 69:
    • But, as the district court observed in piercing the corporate veil, the corporation's "phoenixity provides Mottolo no haven from liability." 1991, Protecting the Corporate Parent, page 103:
    • Her best course would be to marry another phoenix; but as she—poor girl!—cannot appreciate even her own phoenixity, much less that of another, she must perforce be content with a mere mortal. 1904, G. Bernard Shaw, Cashel Byron's profession, page 314:
    • The driver is a Chinese woman. Remarkable phoenixity. 2020, J. S. Salkar, Solipsis: The Divine Mirage: