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prodigiosity|prəʊdɪdʒɪˈɒsɪtɪ|
[f. L. prōdigiōs-us prodigious + -ity.]
1. A person or thing of enormous size; a monster.
1895G. Meredith Amazing Marriage II. xxxvi. 407 We're none of us ‘fifty feet high, with phosphorous heads’, as your friend..says of the prodigiosities.
2. A marvellous quality or performance.
1910W. J. Locke Simon vi. 77 He had fallen in love with her when she had first taken Marseilles captive with the prodigiosities of her horse Sultan. |