egregiosities

Noun

egregiosity (countable and uncountable, plural egregiosities)

1. (rare, uncountable) The quality of being egregious.
   • HUMBUGGERY. The world is chock-full of it. Rather the most glaring specimen of it we have seen latterly is one of the last numbers of the Washington Republic, which represents Scott’s election as beyond all doubt. Whereas, the whole mass of evidence is to the contrary. And yet there are those who...1852 September 22, Edgefield Advertiser. […], volume XVII, number 36, Edgefield, S.C., page [2], column 3

   Synonyms:

   egregiousness

2. (countable, rare) Someone or something that is egregious.
   • And really the editor of the Author should revise his proofs. Thus he has allowed an egregious person to perpetrate the following egregiosity. “Three of the most prominent contemporary Parisienne journalists are now in Mazas prison.” Parisienne! What next, by Polycarp or Polly Peachum?1896 February 8, “Literary Notes”, in The Pall Mall Gazette, volume LXII, number 9633, page 3, column 2