verticity

English

Etymology

Compare French verticité. See vertex.

Noun

verticity (countable and uncountable, plural verticities)

1. The quality or power of turning; revolution; rotation.
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

     I hardly believe he hath from elder times unknown the verticity of the loadstone.

2. An alleged tendency to move around or toward the North or South Pole.