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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.
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Origin of aromaticity

aromatic + -ity
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British Dictionary definitions for aromaticity

aromaticity

noun
  1. 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
  2. the quality or state of having an aroma
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