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urbanicity en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English urban Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English -icity English urbanicity From urban + -icity.

Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) The quality or fact of (an area) being urban.
   • The risk of psychotic disorder in the population exposed to urbanicity alone was 1.59% (31/1946), the risk in those exposed to family history, broadly defined, alone was 3.01% ... Thus, between 60% and 70% of the individuals exposed to both urbanicity and family history had developed psychotic disorder because of the synergistic action of the two proxy causes. 1997, Waltina Scheumann, Managing Salinization: Institutional Analysis of Public Irrigation Systems:
2. (uncountable, usually) The degree to which a given geographical area is urban.
   • 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.
   • To assess this hypothesis, the urbanicity of a boy's place of residence was run against enlistment. 1972, Jerome Johnston, Jerald Bachman, Young Men and Military Service:

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