Dictionary

scandalosity en · NOUN

Etymology

From scandalous + -osity.

Meanings

1. (rare, uncountable) The quality of being scandalous.
   • And though we may concede that "Axolotl" is a narrative whose outrageous scandalosity to our everyday world is surely beyond dispute, we must also acknowledge that it has rules of its own:[…] 1977, Marta Ester Sánchez, Three Latin-American Novelists in Search of Lo Americano: A Productive Failure, pages 119–120:
   • Rating the scandals[…]Let’s create a Scandalosity Rating System, with units everyone understands. 2008 July 17, Patt Morrison, “Rating the scandals”, in Los Angeles Times, page A21:
   • Our sports are far from — how you say? — scandalosity? 1976 July 30, “Tiny nation big on Olympics”, in The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Ken., page C 5:
   • I expanded my Dishing the Dirt to my night show where celebrities would frequent the studio for interviews and I developed my style of high drama and scandalosity. 2003, Wendy Williams, Karen Hunter, Wendy’s Got the Heat, Atria Books, →ISBN, page 91:
   • Miss Somebody, who also sings, got greenly jealous, and as she couldn’t rap Fay’s voice she knocked her face; and one can swing a hammer there with cruel scandalosity. 1923, Edwin Baird, Fay, New York, N.Y.: Edward J. Clode, page 57:
2. (countable, rare) Something scandalous.
   • I’m forever whitewashing after them, whitewashing off the scandalosities they do be scrabbling on the privy walls. 1927, Kathleen Coyle, Shule Agra, New York, N.Y.: E. P. Dutton & Company, page 118:
   • “What a scandalosity!” for an outraged sense of decorum prevailed over his use of sane English. c. 1889?, Dramatic and Musical Criticisms:
   • Still, when a miners’ agent lays himself out to consider the scandalosities of life, it isn’t for mere newspaper folk to offer a word on the subject. 1907 November 8, “Maritime Murmurs”, in The Maritime Review: An Illustrated Weekly Journal, volume XV, number 195, page 194:
   • Please permit me to tell you that I have never yet indulged in scandalosities of that kind. 2004, Nikolay Gogol, translated by Robert A. Maguire, Dead Souls, Penguin Books, page 210:
   • But jest yo’ lemme tell yo’ that knocker on the front door is a plumb scandalosity, an’ I isn’t gwine do yo’ wuck. 1932, The Adventures of the Black Duse, Judd & Detweiler, Inc., page 209:
   • “What a scandalosity!” he exclaimed a moment later, as he met Miss Bailey in the wings. “You ought to be ashamed of myself!” 1900 March 6, “Shapely Chorus Girl Lashes Dave Warfield. Frankie Bailey Attacks Comedian with a Rawhide. Is Put out of the Company—Court Martial on the Weber & Fields Stage Decides That She Must Go at Once — Bald-Headed Man Began the Row.”, in The Leavenworth Times, Leavenworth, Kan., page 5:

Forms

Synonyms

scandalousness