Scandalosity

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being scandalous. rare, uncountable

    "Miss Somebody, who also sings, got greenly jealous, and as she couldn’t rap Fay’s voice she knocked her face; and one can swing a hammer there with cruel scandalosity."

  2. 2
    Something scandalous. countable, rare

    "“What a scandalosity!” for an outraged sense of decorum prevailed over his use of sane English."

Synonyms

All synonyms
scandalousness

Example

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"Miss Somebody, who also sings, got greenly jealous, and as she couldn’t rap Fay’s voice she knocked her face; and one can swing a hammer there with cruel scandalosity."

Etymology

From scandalous + -osity.

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