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单词 pexity
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pexityn.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin pexitās.
Etymology: < classical Latin pexitās soft hairy quality, silkiness < pexus , literally ‘combed’, hence, ‘having the nap on it’, use as adjective of past participle of pectere to comb (see pecten n.) + -tās (see -ty suffix1; compare -ity suffix).
Obsolete. rare. Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
The extent to which the nap on a fabric is raised.
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1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Pexity, the roughnesse of the web.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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