splendidity

English

Etymology

From splendid +‎ -ity.

Noun

splendidity (uncountable)

1. The quality of being splendid.
   • 1884 May 20, “The Chromo-Premium Business”, in Sacramento Daily Record-Union‎^[1], volume LI, number 76 (whole 10,326), Sacramento, Calif.:

     A magazine in Chicago is announced as “splendidly gotten up,” and the “splendidity” of which can be described only by such rhapsodical circulars as the publishers of the magazine issue.

   • 1900, Algernon Rose, editor, ‘A439’: Being the Autobiography of a Piano, London: Sands & Company, page 365:

     It would, indeed, be difficult to name anyone to-day who has diffused more innocent enjoyment throughout this murky winter kingdom than Tom Smith, with all his works and pomps and Christmas-crackers, which yearly grow in size, sentiment, skittishness, and what the schoolboy called “splendidity.”

   • 1901 November 5, “Washington Fruit at Buffalo. Exhibits From This State Attract Much Attention.”, in The Tacoma Daily Ledger, volume XIX, number 309, Tacoma, Wash., page 8:

     Thurston county has loomed up splendidity with a display of genuine merit.

   • 1934 November 23, “Autumn Sketches in Vermont”, in Rutland Daily Herald, volume 81, number 281, Rutland, Vt., page 8:

     And we had to buy an extra silo to take care of the splendidity of ensilage corn this year!

   • 1989 July 6, “A splendid effort”, in East Kent Gazette, page 5:

     It thanks the school for its donation of £881.13 and commemorates pupils’ “total and utter red nose splendidity” — the words of madcap charity organizers Griff Rhys-Jones and Lenny Henry.

   • 1999, Prajñā-bhāratī, page 50:

     The reverence and splendidity, displayed by Bhikshuni Vishakha as the Superintendent of the illustrious rolls of nuns like Amrapali and Supiya26 and the magnitude and excellence, attained by Dhammadima after renunciation of the worldly life, are unparalleled in the history of the world.

   • 2005, Kyle Clinton Foley, Lorelei Pursued, →ISBN, page 99:

     and if you, lorelei, choose to bestow upon me the gift pan-magnifico of your virginity, i will strive my upmost to be worthy of its heleneskan splendidity.

   • 2011, Mark Christopher Lee, Weird — The Life And Times Of A Pocket God, →ISBN, page 24:

     So we all headed up Scar Lane, past the wool and wooden shop, past the ex car showroom now a Curry House as previously mentioned and past Boa Vista were my Aunt and Uncle used to live in opulent splendidity before the big water drought of ‘86 caused them to sell the Garden Centre they owned next door.

Synonyms

• splendidness
• splenditude (rare)
• splendor