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otiosities

otiosities is the plural of otiosity.

Meaning of otiosity

Noun

otiosity (countable and uncountable, plural otiosities)

  1. The state or quality of being otiose.
    • There is no doubt that the ordinary reader would enjoy, and he certainly would profit much by, a revival of the classic work—if only he did not fall asleep over its magniloquent but perissological otiosity.1908, Charles Francis Horne, The Technique of the Novel, page 126

Questions about otiosities

What is otiosities the plural of?
Otiosities is the plural of otiosity.

Words near otiosities in the dictionary

  1. otinid
  2. otinids
  3. otiose
  4. otiosely
  5. otioseness
  6. otiosities
  7. otiosity
  8. Otira
  9. Otis
  10. Otisville
  11. otitic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: otiosities (page history and authors); otiosity (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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