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say it: ran-SID-i-tee
rancidity is a noun meaning "the state of being rancid; having a rancid scent or flavor (as of old cooking oil)". It is pronounced /ɹænˈsɪdɪti/ — ran-SID-i-tee. It carries one recorded sense.
the state of being rancid; having a rancid scent or flavor (as of old cooking oil)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for rancidity come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.