otiosity
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Etymology
From otiose + -ity, from Middle French ociosité, from Latin otiositas, from Latin otiosus + -itas (“-ity”).
Pronunciation
Noun
otiosity (countable and uncountable, plural otiosities)
- The state or quality of being otiose.
- 1908, Charles Francis Horne, The Technique of the Novel, page 126:
- 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.
Synonyms
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