smecticity

Etymology

From smectic + -ity.

smecticity means the quality of being smectic. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

noun

The quality of being smectic.“This state could capture a number of important experimental features in the pseudogap, for example, the predominant d-wave CDW with spatial dependent charge smecticity, the unusual ARPES quasiparticle spectrum, and the time reversal symmetry breaking order in polarized neutron diffraction and polar Kerr rotation.”