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moi|e|ty «MOY uh tee», noun, plural -ties.

1. half: »

War, pestilence, and famine had consumed…the moiety of the human species (Edward Gibbon).

2. part: »

Only a small moiety of college students win scholarships.

3. a person's share or portion.

4. Anthropology. each of the two strictly comparable major sections of a single society. Typically, as common among Australian aborigines, each moiety is exogamous so that all the members of any one moiety must find their spouses in the other.

5. Chemistry. a part of a molecule.

╂[earlier moitie < Old French meitiet < Late Latin medietās half < Latin, (coined by Cicero for Greek mesótēs) the middle < medius middle]