biplicity

== English == === Etymology === From Latin bi- (“twice”). Bailey (1736) suggests borrowing from Latin biplicitas, but this is not well attested. Compare duplicity, from Latin duplicare (“double”). === Noun === biplicity (uncountable) The state of being twice folded; reduplication. Doubleness, the state of being double. === References === “biplicity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. Nathan Bailey (1736), Dictionarium Britanicum: Or a More Compleat Universal Etymological English Dictionary Than Any Extant.