canonicity
noun
canonicity is a noun meaning “The degree to which something is canonical” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-A-N-O-N-I-C-I-T-Y, and it appears about once in every 20 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of canonicity is canonicities.
What does canonicity mean?
noun
- 1
The degree to which something is canonical.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of canonicity
- canonicities plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is canonicity?
Canonicity appears about once in every 20 million words in written English, the 136,649th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Canonicity in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense The degree to which something is canonical:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Kanonizität |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does canonicity come from?
From canonic + -ity.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).