extancy means the state of rising above others, or a projection. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
extancy is pronounced /ˈɛkstənsi/.
Etymology
From Latin extantia, exstantia.
noun
- The state of rising above others, or a projection.“[W]hereas in ſmall fragments or plates, the Ice, though it ſink not to the bottom of the water, will oftentimes ſink so low in it, as ſcarce to leave any part evidently extant above the ſurface of the water, in vaſt quantities of Ice, that extancy is ſometimes ſo conſpicuous, that Navigators in their Voyages to Iſland, Greenland, and other frozen Regions, complain of meeting with lumps, or rather ”
- The state of being extant; existence.