OCEANICITY noun (oh-shuh-nis-i-tee)

noun
1. the degree to which the climate of a place is influenced by the sea.


Quotes

“Three cold, miserable countries,” said Louis when he heard the title of this paper as it was delivered in a preliminary version, and indeed what characterises them are their high northern latitudes ... and their extreme oceanicity, which modifies the cold with rain-laden winds from a relatively warm sea.
--*T. C. Smout,*"Energy Rich, Energy Poor: Scotland, Ireland and Iceland, 1600–1800," Exploring Environmental History: Selected Essays, 2009

... the heavier rainfall and generally greater oceanicity of this region may more than cancel out its greater warmth, compared with the southeast.
--*Derek Ratcliffe,*The Peregrine Falcon, 1980



Origin

Oceanicity was first recorded in the 1930s. The -ity suffix is used to form abstract nouns expressing state or condition and ultimately derives from Latin.