Urbanicity
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Urbanicity is a noun meaning The quality or fact of (an area) being urban.
Meaning
The quality or fact of (an area) being urban.
More Meanings
- The degree to which a given geographical area is urban.
Example Sentences
To assess this hypothesis, the urbanicity of a boy's place of residence was run against enlistment.
2002: Heinz Häfner (ed), Risk and Protective Factors in Schizophrenia: Towards a Conceptual Model of the Disease Process A number of studies have associated urbanicity at birth or upbringing with schizophrenia risk.
The risk of psychotic disorder in the population exposed to urbanicity alone was 1.59% (31/1946), the risk in those exposed to family history, broadly defined, alone was 3.01% ... Thus, between 60% and 70% of the individuals exposed to both urbanicity and family history had developed psychotic disorder because of the synergistic action of the two proxy causes.
Word Forms
- urbanicities
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include urbanness, urbanity, inurbaneness, suburbanity, cityness, suburbanness.
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