rusticity
noun
rusticity is a noun meaning “The quality of being rustic” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-U-S-T-I-C-I-T-Y, and it appears about once in every 35 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of rusticity is rusticities.
What does rusticity mean?
noun
- 1
The quality of being rustic.
- 2
That which makes something rustic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce rusticity?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Neøn-rusticity.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of rusticity
- rusticities plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is rusticity?
Rusticity appears about once in every 35 million words in written English, the 182,517th 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).
Rusticity in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense that which makes something rustic:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | rusticidad |
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 rusticity come from?
From rustic + -ity, from Latin rusticitas.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).