phoenixity
nounEtymology From phoenix + -ity.
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The quality of being like a phoenix, especially that of recovering from destruction, or possession of an otherworldly beauty.
- Her best course would be to marry another phoenix; but as she—poor girl!—cannot appreciate even her own phoenixity, much less that of another, she must perforce be content with a mere mortal.1904, G. Bernard Shaw, Cashel Byron's profession, page 314:
- No church in the Philippines can match the phoenixity of Ermita.1980, Alejandro R. Roces, Fiesta, page 69:
2 more examples
- But, as the district court observed in piercing the corporate veil, the corporation's "phoenixity provides Mottolo no haven from liability."1991, Protecting the Corporate Parent, page 103:
- The driver is a Chinese woman. Remarkable phoenixity.2020, J. S. Salkar, Solipsis: The Divine Mirage: