gorgeosity

English

Etymology

From gorge(ous) +‎ -osity.

Noun

gorgeosity (countable and uncountable, plural gorgeosities)

1. (rare, uncountable) The quality of being gorgeous.
   • 1963 [1962], Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange, New York: W. W. Norton, →ISBN, page 33:

     Then, brothers, it came. Oh, bliss, bliss and heaven. I lay all nagoy to the ceiling, my gulliver on my rookers on the pillow, glazzies closed, rot open in bliss, slooshying the sluice of lovely sounds. Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeosity made flesh.

   • 2005, Micol Ostow, 30 Guys in 30 Days, New York, N.Y.: Simon Pulse, →ISBN, pages 8–9 and 89–90:

     While I was trying to figure out what god of computer matchups had determined that a mutual dislike of both smoking and cookie crumbs rendered Charlie “Five-Time Miss Georgia Peach Queen” and myself suitable roommates, she jumped down from her little step stool (something else I’d never have thought to bring along) and stuck out her hand, beaming at me with a level of gorgeosity that rendered me temporarily blind. […] “What do you think?” Charlie asked, twirling so as to give me a more accurate full-body view of her gorgeosity (which, I will admit, is impressive).

   • 2005, Mark Dunn, “hubba hubba”, in Zounds! A Browser’s Dictionary of Interjections, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Griffin, →ISBN, page 97:

     Equal to the construction worker’s wolf whistle in appreciation of a passing display of tight-skirted female gorgeosity, hubba hubba can, depending upon its delivery, come off more complimentary than lascivious.

   • 2012, Philip Kuberski, Kubrick’s Total Cinema: Philosophical Themes and Formal Qualities, London, New York, N.Y.: Continuum International Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 106:

     His banal electronic renderings—Carlos would certainly not see them that way—have their own weird sublimity and act to regenerate a sense of the “gorgeosity” of Beethoven’s music–grown too familiar through mechanical reproductions.

2. (rare, countable) Someone or something that is gorgeous.
   • 1935 July, Robert Tobey, “Cinemacaroni”, in International Photographer, volume 7, number 6, Hollywood, Calif., page twenty-seven, column 2:

     After a considerable absence from the screen, Elissa Landi comes back for a fresh start. By now she should have her teeth well into the lead in “WITHOUT REGRET” for Paramount, as she was scheduled to start on June 20. And it is without regret your little scribe hears of this, as she is one of his favorite gorgeosities of the silver sheet.

   • 2000, Judith Fitzgerald, Sarah McLachlan: Building a Mystery, New Millennium edition, Kingston, Ont.: Quarry Music Books, →ISBN, page 49:

     Simultaneously stunned and utterly smitten, the Moevitian fell in love with the vision before him that night: a goddess, a new-age angel, an artist in possession of perfect pitch, a two-plus-octave range, and vocal gorgeosities to the nth degree.

   • 2005, Stewart Ferris, Tish & Pish: How to Be of a Speakingness Like Stephen Fry, Chichester, West Sussex: Summersdale Publishers Ltd, →ISBN, title page:

     A delicious collection of sumptuous gorgeosities

Synonyms

• gorgeousness