Is “symmetricity” a word? [closed]

Some online resources that have a meaning for this word

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/symmetricity

https://www.wordnik.com/words/symmetricity

But I am not sure whether they are correct. Can anyone clear my doubt on this?


Solution 1:

Tiger, Tiger: Symmetricity, Symmetricality, or Symmetricalness?

It doesn't really matter whether this or that dictionary includes or omits it. It is the regular product of applying productive derivational morphology to a basic English word for conversion purposes.

It doesn’t matter whether you use symmetricity, symmetricality, or symmetricalness — any native speaker and indeed any competent second-language user will know exactly what you mean by your term.

This is because you’ve used a basic vocabulary term, the adjective symmetric, and applyied standard suffixes to convert that adjective into a substantive.

The Mathematics of Nominalization Doubly Applied

However, careful writers will wonder why you used a noun-making suffix on an adjective which was itself already the product of someone else applying an adjective-making suffix to. In other words, this math is overly complicated:

adjective₁ = noun₁      + adjective-making suffix
noun₂      = adjective₁ + noun-making      suffix
noun₂      = noun₁      + adjective-making suffix + noun-making suffix

Seems to me you should use noun1 in the first place instead of adding two suffixes to it to make noun2.

What’s the original noun, you ask? That would be symmetry.


Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?