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单词 hideosity
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hideosityn.

/hɪdiːˈɒsɪti/
Etymology: < hideous adj. and adv. + -ity suffix, after curiosity, etc. Middle English had hidouste, Old French hideuseté.
Hideousness; concrete an embodiment of hideousness, a very ugly object.
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the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > ugliness > [noun] > hideousness
loathsomenessa1300
hideousness1340
loathliness1483
shockingness1753
hideosity1807
1807 C. Wilmot Let. 15 May in M. Wilmot & C. Wilmot Russ. Jrnls. (1934) ii. 245 Nothing before our eyes but Minerals & Fossils & Animals in every State of Hideosity.
1841 C. Ridley Lett. (1958) 69 Never in my life have I seen such frightful hideosities of beds as they are.
1856 Illustr. London News 11 Oct. 359/1 Trafalgar-square, that place of monstrosities and hideosities.
1884 Jaunt in Junk xv. 243 Mere grotesque hideosity of carving.
1897 United Serv. Mag. 277 Laying bare, in spite of its repulsive hideosity..the whited sepulchre.
1970 New Yorker 12 Sept. 56/1 Don't speak to me of caravans... Such hideosities.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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