Meaning & use
compacity
An old-fashioned or rare term for compactness; the quality of being closely and neatly packed together.
See it in a sentence
Reviewers praised the compacity of the folding bicycle, which packs down remarkably small.
Older engineering texts sometimes use compacity instead of the more common word compactness.
A note on using this word
"Compacity" is rare in modern English, and should not be confused with "capacity," a much more common and unrelated word.
Words with a similar meaning
compactness
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