"quality of being confidential," 1830; see confidential + -ity.
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confidential adj.
1759, "indicating the confiding of a private intimacy," from Latin confidentia (see confidence) + -al (1). Sense of "intended to be treated as private" is from 1773; that of "enjoying the confidence of another" is from 1805. Related: Confidentially.
-ity
word-forming element making abstract nouns from adjectives and meaning "condition or quality of being ______," from Middle English -ite, from Old French -ete (Modern French -ité) and directly from Latin -itatem (nominative -itas), suffix denoting state or condition, composed of -i- (from the stem or else a connective) + the common abstract suffix -tas (see -ty (2)).
Roughly, the word in -ity usually means the quality of being what the adjective describes, or concretely an instance of the quality, or collectively all the instances; & the word in -ism means the disposition, or collectively all those who feel it. [Fowler]