What's the difference between rubicund and rubicundity?
Rubicund
Definition:
(a.) Inclining to redness; ruddy; red.
Example Sentences:
(1) "You look surprised, Blackadder," said Stephen Fry's absurdly over-moustachioed, rubicund General Melchett.
(2) Laurent-Désiré Kabila, president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, who has been assassinated aged 61, was a cheerful, rubicund rogue, portly in middle age, who spent most of his life in exile, engaged in the illegal diamond trade and wild schemes to overthrow the dictatorship of Joseph-Désiré Mobutu, his immediate predecessor.
(3) There were even some isolated boos when it was his turn to lift the trophy and the cheer was nothing like as loud as that moment when Sir Alex Ferguson appeared, pointed at himself and clenched a fist, with that familiar rubicund smile.
Rubicundity
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being rubicund; ruddiness.
Example Sentences:
(1) "You look surprised, Blackadder," said Stephen Fry's absurdly over-moustachioed, rubicund General Melchett.
(2) Laurent-Désiré Kabila, president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, who has been assassinated aged 61, was a cheerful, rubicund rogue, portly in middle age, who spent most of his life in exile, engaged in the illegal diamond trade and wild schemes to overthrow the dictatorship of Joseph-Désiré Mobutu, his immediate predecessor.
(3) There were even some isolated boos when it was his turn to lift the trophy and the cheer was nothing like as loud as that moment when Sir Alex Ferguson appeared, pointed at himself and clenched a fist, with that familiar rubicund smile.