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OP the fate of a pebble carried along by a river: some are ground down to sand quickly, others end up well-rounded and smooth. Nice one, wsieber!
In one of my commonplace books I have a quote by Borges about language not being a rational invention, but one born of fantastic impulses. I'm pretty sure it came off of AWAD, so most of you will know it...
And I actually like the way "wordicity" sounds - it has a pleasing rhythm, rolls easily off the tongue. There must already be a word in English for "the state of being a word", don't you think? But if there isn't, "wordicity" would fill that gap well.
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