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-ity
is always a great word to know.
So is gobo. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
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World English Dictionary
| -ity | |
| —suffix forming nouns | |
| indicating state or condition: technicality | |
| [from Old French -ite, from Latin -itās] | |
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Word Origin & History
-ity
suffix forming nouns from adjectives, meaning "condition or quality of being ______," from M.E. -ite, from O.Fr. -ité and directly from L. -itatem (nom. -itas), composed of connective -i- + -tas (see -ty (2))
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