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Jun. 25, 2015
Word of the Day

ubiety Audio Pronunciation
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\yoo-BAHY-i-tee\
noun
1. the property of having a definite location at any given time; state of existing and being localized in space.
Quotes
Mr. Locke himself justly ridicules the distinction between locus or place, as applied to bodies, and ubiety, or whereness, which is ascribed to spirits, as it is explained by some philosophers.
-- Isaac Watts, "Essay VI: Of the Power of Spirits to Move Bodies—of Their Being in a Place and Removing from It," Philosophical Essays on Various Subjects, 1833
Origin
Ubiety came to English in the mid-1600s from the Latin ubi meaning "where?"
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