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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

bogosity en · NOUN

Etymology

From bogus (“fake, phony”) + -osity.

Meanings

  1. (countable, humorous, uncountable) The state or degree of being bogus.
    • When they both had commented sourly and at length about the inflated bogosity of tourist hotel food and particularly the mendacious misuse of the English language to describe materials which had certainly been in various deep-freezes for at least six months, they settled down on the balcony to discuss Bond’s findings of the morning. 1961, Ian Fleming, Thunderball:
  2. (countable, humorous) Something that is bogus.

Forms

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bogosities Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

bogotic

Relateds

bogon