orientality

English

Etymology

oriental + -ity

Noun

orientality (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being oriental.
    • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: [], 2nd edition, London: [] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] 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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