tremendosity

tremendosity noun: the state or condition of being tremendous.

Noun

tremendosity (countable and uncountable, plural tremendosities)

(rare, uncountable) The state or condition of being tremendous.
- He talks of enlarging the stage after Easter, probably to make room for Mrs. Honey’s foot, which is remarkable for its tremendosity.1837 March 18, “Theatricals”, in Figaro in London, volume VI, number 276, London: […] ([F]or the Proprietor) by W. Strange, […], page 44, column 1
- The lady librarian waxing wroth at our complimentary notice of her smithy, blew the bellows with such tremendosity, in the effervescence of her indignation, as to scatter over the neighbouring roofs, the 24 first pages of the ‘Mysteries of London,’ and Jack and the Bean-stalk.’1848 August 5, Bell’s Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer, volume IV, number 158, Sydney, N.S.W., page [3], column 1
(countable, rare) Someone or something that is tremendous.
- The functions were chiefly remarkable, not for sport, but for diluted tea and cake and a tremendosity of luscious local girl.1909 October 16, “Pithy Pars”, in The Critic, volume V, number 220, page 3, column 1
- The speaker of the evening was the Rev. John Cavanaugh, C. S. C., former president of the Unievrsity.^([sic]) He delivered a splendid address which was entitled “Tremendosities.”1924, “Knights of Columbus Initiate”, in The Notre Dame Scholastic, Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame, page 390, column 2

“It is what, in the long run, I feel to be my actuating ideal—I mean, of course, our sympathy.” The tremendosity of the implication, at all events, arrested his attention.1903, James Henry, “The Idealists”, in The Mortarboard, […] [T]he Junior Class of Barnard College, books II–III, pages 86–87:
No, he is of a tremendosity, but he worries me to death; he kills me; he really gives me a headache.1903 January, William Dean Howells, “Mr. Henry James’s Later Work”, in George [Brinton McClellan] Harvey, editor, The North American...
This overpowering sense of the “tremendosity” of human “problems” is one of the manifestations of that hypocrisy which has ever characterized the domineering class.1908, Marcus Hitch, “Comments”, in Goethe’s Faust: A Fragment of Socialist Criticism, Chicago, Ill.: Charles H[ope] Kerr & Company, page 74:
All said there is a lot of tremendosity in it.1923 November 10, O[liver] W[endell] Holmes [Jr.], edited by Mark DeWolfe Howe, Holmes-Laski Letters: The Correspondence of Mr. Justice...

plural	tremendosities

From tremend(ous) + -osity.

What does tremendosity mean?: Tremendosity means the state or condition of being tremendous.
How do you use tremendosity in a sentence?: “It is what, in the long run, I feel to be my actuating ideal—I mean, of course, our sympathy.” The tremendosity of the implication, at all events, arrested his attention.
What part of speech is tremendosity?: Tremendosity is a noun.
What is the plural of tremendosity?: The plural of tremendosity is tremendosities.

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