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foliosity

foliosity noun: the ponderousness or bulk of a folio; voluminousness.

Noun

foliosity (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The ponderousness or bulk of a folio; voluminousness.
    • It is exactly because he is not tedious, because he does not shoot into German foliosity, that Schlosser finds him intolerable1847-1848, Thomas De Quincey, "Protestantism", in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine

Questions about foliosity

What does foliosity mean?
Foliosity means the ponderousness or bulk of a folio; voluminousness.
What part of speech is foliosity?
Foliosity is a noun.

Words near foliosity in the dictionary

  1. foliophagous
  2. foliophagy
  3. folios
  4. foliose
  5. foliosely
  6. foliosity
  7. foliot
  8. foliots
  9. folious
  10. foliphagous
  11. folisol

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