pacificity

English

Etymology

pacific +‎ -ity

Noun

pacificity (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being pacific; peacefulness.
    • 1976, Conflict and harmony in education in tropical Africa, page 85:
      One of the quintessential values of the indigenous Ewe society is pacificity.
    • 2012 -, Peter Baofu, The Future of Post-Human Waste, page 44:
      In addition, in FPHWP, I proposed “the multifaceted theory of war and peace” to understand war and peace, in a small sense—or aggression and pacificity, in a broad sense.
    • 2013, Penelope Harvey, ‎Peter Gow -, Sex and Violence: Issues in Representation and Experience, page 90:
      In the Alto Xingu, there is strong moral emphasis on respect for others, on self-control, and on pacificity.
    • 2014, Charlotte Roberts, Edward Gibbon and the Shape of History, page 170:
      Hume's pacificity and neutrality contrast with Gibbon's combative attitude and his interest in subjective, personalized experience.
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