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Where does “typicality” come from?

Typicality comes from English typical plus the suffix -ity, from French -ité and Latin -itas, ultimately from Ancient Greek τύπος meaning "mark" or "impression."

typicality (English): typicalness

Definitions

  1. typicalness

Ancestry of “typicality”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishtypicalCapturing the overall sense of a thing;...
2Late Latintypicalis—
3Latintypicusfigurative, typical; periodic; When it is the...
4Latintypusfigure, image; type, form, sort, kind; form,...
5Ancient GreekτύποςA blow, pressing; The results of a blow: mark,...
6Ancient Greekτύπτωto beat, strike, smite; to beat, strike oneself
7Proto-Indo-European(s)tewp-to push, to stick
8Proto-Indo-European(s)tew-to push, to hit

Words derived from “typicality”

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