Home › Words › P › proprietarityproprietarityproprietarity means the quality of being proprietary.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, proprietarity ranks #42,626 of 42,752 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom proprietary + -ity.nounThe quality of being proprietary.e.g.“The degree of product independence illuminates the extent of an action model's proprietarity.” — 2001, Heinz-Dieter Knöll, Lukas W. H. Kühl, Roland W. A. Kühl, Robert Moreton, “View The Status Quo: Review of Life-Cycle Approaches”, in Optimising Business Performance with Standard Software SystemsDefinitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).