Livity
Also spelled: livitie
Meaning
The Rastafari concept of righteous living — the whole way a person conducts their life, including diet, speech, conduct and spiritual practice, understood as an expression of the divine energy within.
Examples
-
“Him livity clean, him nuh tek no shortcut.”
His way of living is clean, he takes no shortcuts.
-
“Ital food a part a di livity.”
Ital food is part of the way of life.
-
“Yuh haffi check yuh livity before yuh judge smaddy else.”
You have to examine your own way of living before you judge someone else.
Origin
Coined in Rastafari Iyaric from English "live" plus the abstract noun ending -ity, deliberately replacing "life" — which contains no sense of ongoing action — with a word built on living as a continuous practice.
How it's used
A serious spiritual term, not casual slang. It refers to conduct as a whole rather than any single habit, and is used mainly within or about Rastafari communities.