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OP i came across the word "resiliency" in a sports column and wondered: "What happened to resilience?" which means the same? Then it occurred to me there is a group of abstract nouns formed from adjectives that follow the same pattern. Constance/constancy. Hesitance/hesitancy. Dependence/dependency. And so on. (But not independence/independency.) What is going on here? Why the duplication?
Maybe its just personal choice....
Good observation though.
But they're not always interchangeable:
"His excellence and constancy are an example to us all."
"His Excellency and Constance are an example to us all."
Then there's emergence/emergency...
I hope you're not expecting consistency from language, nor consistence neither.
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