Why not mavity?
Goodness, thank you, I thought I was going insane. Why does everybody else spell it weird? Is this some Mandela effect?
If it was called Newtonity someone would ask why not Gravity.
Googling says gravity comes:
directly from Latin gravitatem (nominative gravitas) “weight, heaviness, pressure,” from gravis “heavy” (from PIE root *gwere- (1) “heavy”). The scientific sense of “downward acceleration of terrestrial bodies due to gravitation of the Earth” first recorded 1620s.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/gravity
When in doubt, blame Latin.
I guess because gravity meant something like “weighty” in a behavioural sense. So that objects having gravity, would have the meaning of the “weightyness” of something.
Sometimes I think this place needs a rule about doing at least one search with any engine before posting.
Grabity? Cause it grabs you/stuff
