officiality
English
Etymology
From official + -ity; or French officialité, from Latin officialitas.
Noun
officiality (countable and uncountable, plural officialities)
- The charge, office, court, or jurisdiction of an official.
- The ecclesiastical charge, office, court, or jurisdiction of an official principal.
- The state or fact of being official.
- Officials collectively.
Further reading
- “officiality”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “officiality”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.