seity

Latin se (“oneself”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiːɪti/

seity (plural seities)

1. (archaic) Something peculiar to oneself; personal peculiarity; individuality.
   • 1709-1711, The Tatler

     The learned Scotus , to distinguish the race of mankind, gives every individual of that species what he calls a Seity, something peculiar to himself, which makes him different from all other persons in the world

   • 1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, page 32:

     He was […] affected with trepidation, partial surdity, and most perceptible seity.

• “seity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• yetis, yites