beauteosity

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English

Etymology

From beaute(ous) +‎ -osity.

Noun

beauteosity (uncountable)

  1. (rare, humorous) The quality of being beauteous.
    Synonym: beauteousness
    • 1983 December 2, Hugo Williams, “Loving, working and suffering”, in The Times Literary Supplement, London: Times Newspapers Limited, →ISSN, page 1342, columns 1–2:
      One glance at Hart Crane through Beat eyes and you can see why they chose him as precursor, but Crane’s lofty abstractions and Shelley-like beauteosity are controlled by an eye and ear that none of the Beats possessed.
    • 2005, Plautus, translated by Amy Richlin, “Towelheads (Poenulus)”, in Rome and the Mysterious Orient: Three Plays by Plautus (The Joan Palevsky Imprint in Classical Literature), Berkeley, Calif.;: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 240, lines 1192a–1194:
      katya: How thrilling for a girl it is, dear sister, if she wins the prize; like us, today we beat ’em all for bare-faced beauteosity. / tchotchka: You’re dumber, sister, than I want. Or do you feel beautiful—I ask you—if you don’t get your face all smeared with soot?
    • 2007, David F. Latham, “English Difficult? Au Contraire”, in American Rambler: 48 Original, Hilarious, Laugh-Out-Loud Newspapers Columns, Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse, →ISBN:
      There’s a book of the early writings of then-Theodore Geisel (now known as Dr. Seuss) that illustrates the simplistic beauteosity of English. It is called The Tough Coughs as He Ploughs the Dough.
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