Post by t-bob on Jul 9, 2019 9:35:58 GMT -5
CADUCITY
noun
1. frailty; transitoriness: the caducity of life.
Quotes
What remains, the point of the passion, is a fascination with caducity and the relationship of photography to it. -- Leslie Epstein, "Stories and Something Else," New York Times, February 14, 1982 A man ... to whom, and to whose colleagues, amid the perishable caducity of human affairs, is largely due the pullulation of literary taste .... -- Christopher Morley, The Haunted Bookshop, 1919
Origin
Caducity is an uncommon noun meaning “frailty, weakness of old age.” It comes from French caducité “obsolescence, cancellation,” a derivation of the adjective caduc “obsolete, deciduous,” from the Latin adjective cadūcus “fallen, falling, liable to fall, frail, fleeting.” Caducity entered English in the 17th century.
noun
1. frailty; transitoriness: the caducity of life.
Quotes
What remains, the point of the passion, is a fascination with caducity and the relationship of photography to it. -- Leslie Epstein, "Stories and Something Else," New York Times, February 14, 1982 A man ... to whom, and to whose colleagues, amid the perishable caducity of human affairs, is largely due the pullulation of literary taste .... -- Christopher Morley, The Haunted Bookshop, 1919
Origin
Caducity is an uncommon noun meaning “frailty, weakness of old age.” It comes from French caducité “obsolescence, cancellation,” a derivation of the adjective caduc “obsolete, deciduous,” from the Latin adjective cadūcus “fallen, falling, liable to fall, frail, fleeting.” Caducity entered English in the 17th century.