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RELATIVITY
Definition of RELATIVITY
noun
The state of being relative to something else; the absence of universally applicable rules or standards; relativism; an instance of this.
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Where it comes from
From relative (“connected to or depending on something else”) + -ity (suffix forming nouns from adjectives where the nouns refer to the properties, qualities, or states described by the adjectives). Sense 2.1 (“reliance of the nature of physical phenomena on the relative motion between an observer and the thing observed”) is a translation of German Relativität (“relativity”) used in the works of the German-American theoretical physicist Albert Einstein (1879–1955). Morphologically relative + -ity.
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
RELATIVITY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 106, 3 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 106, 3 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
RELATIVITY starts with R and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AEIILRTTVY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T and I appear more than once.
Words that start RELATI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found RELATIVITY?
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