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ˈfabulousness
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality or state of being fabulous. a. Of a person: Fondness for fables; proneness to fiction or invention. b. Of a narrative, etc.: Resemblance to a fable; fabulous, fictitious or mythical character.
a.1611Cotgr., Fabulosité, fabulousnesse, th' inuention of lyes, tales, fables, or fained reports. 1680Dodwell Two Lett. Advice (1691) 169 Their [the Rabbins'] notorious fabulousness. 1711Brit. Apollo III. 2/1 The Fabulousness of the Poets. 1775Johnson W. Isl. Scot. Wks. X. 329 His [Boethius's] fabulousness, if he was the author of the fictions, is a fault for which no apology can be made.
b.1587Golding De Mornay xxx. 488 The fondness and fabulousness thereof appeereth in this. 1662Stillingfl. Orig. Sacr. i. vi. heading, The fabulousness of the Heroical age of Greece. 1702Echard Eccl. Hist. iii. iv. 386 He afterwards wrote two letters..to show the fabulousness of the history of Susanna. 1807G. Chalmers Caledonia I. Pref. 5 The ancient history of North-Britain, whatever might be its fabulousness. 1837Arnold in Stanley Life & Corr. (1844) II. viii. 101 To notice with a grave remark as to their fabulousness, the peculiar marvels of the stories. |