aromaticity

[ ar-uh-muh-tis-i-tee, uh-roh-muh- ]

noun

1. the quality or state of being aromatic.
2. Chemistry. the property of being or resembling any of the aromatic compounds.

Word History and Origins

Origin of aromaticity¹

aromatic + -ity

Example Sentences

As a newly minted professor, Breslow also made fundamental contributions in a completely different area of chemistry: a newly explored type of chemical bonding called aromaticity.

From Nature

“From a theoretical viewpoint,” the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences declared in awarding the Nobel, “the discovery of the fullerenes has influenced our conception of such widely separated scientific problems as the galactic carbon cycle and classical aromaticity, a keystone of theoretical chemistry.”

From Washington Post

There are several concepts in chemistry – aromaticity, hydrophobic effects, polarizability, chemical diversity – which succumb to multiple definitions and are not strictly quantifiable.

From Scientific American