orientality

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English

Etymology

From oriental +‎ -ity.

Noun

orientality (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being oriental.
    • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: , 2nd edition, London: A Miller, for Edw Dod and Nath Ekins, , →OCLC:
      Whose revolution being regular, it hath no power nor efficacy peculiar from its orientality, but equally disperſeth his beams

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