Technicity
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The efficacy, functionality, or experience of a particular technology.
"The ramjet is well placed to answer this^([sic]) new functions, as it is simple, inexpensive, that its technicity is well known, and its consumption is five to six times less than that of the rocket motor."
- 2 The prevalence of or reliance upon (a particular) technology by a specific group of people or by humanity as a whole.
"The consequence of assuming that the outstanding characteristic of the modern planetary order is its technicity (rather than the existence of a global market) is that an unnecessary stress is laid on the relationship (treated, possibly correctly, as radically distorted) between the individual and "things.""
Example
More examples"The ramjet is well placed to answer this^([sic]) new functions, as it is simple, inexpensive, that its technicity is well known, and its consumption is five to six times less than that of the rocket motor."