aromaticity

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

noun

the quality or state of being aromatic.

Chemistry. the property of being or resembling any of the aromatic compounds.

Origin of aromaticity

aromatic + -ity

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British Dictionary definitions for aromaticity

aromaticity

noun

the property of certain planar cyclic conjugated molecules, esp benzene, of behaving like unsaturated molecules and undergoing substitution reactions rather than addition as a result of delocalization of electrons in the ring

the quality or state of having an aroma

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