English
facticity
From fact + -icity, possibly modelled on German Faktizität which first appeared in the writings of the German philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814).
Formed from fact + -icity
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- ‘to put’
Latin faciō ‘do’
Latin factus ‘done or made’
Latin factum ‘an act’
Old French fact
English fact
first attested From fact + -icity, possibly modelled on German Faktizität which first appeared in the writings of the German philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814) (as stated in the etymology)
The story
From fact + -icity, possibly modelled on German Faktizität which first appeared in the writings of the German philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814).
Today it means
noun The quality or state of being a fact.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / facticity