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English
Etymology
From bodacious + -ness.
Noun
bodaciousness (uncountable)
- The quality of being bodacious.
1884 June 21, “‘Delightful Deceits’”, in Harry W. Frost, editor, Saturday Evening Lance, volume II, number 25, Topeka, Kan., →OCLC, page 1, column 6:Th’ bodaciousness of him thinkin’ I wuz fool nuff to b’leeve it riled me, hit did, an I up and hooped him.
2005, Dorothy Otnow Lewis, “Adult Antisocial Behavior, Criminality, and Violence”, in Benjamin J Sadock, Virginia A Sadock, editors, Kaplan & Sadock’s Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, 8th edition, volume II, Philadephia, Pa.: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, →ISBN, chapter 26 , page 2260, column 1:The silliness of a mink tuxedo, the hypersexuality and indiscretions of a sexagenarian cavorting with teenagers, the “bodaciousness” of a Florida banker flaunting his multimillion-dollar art collection as his banking empire collapses—these kinds of behaviors go beyond simple greed and arrogance.
2009, Jabari Asim, “At the Threshold”, in What Obama Means … For Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Future, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow, →ISBN, page 78: Fox contributor Liz Trotta jokingly wished for the assassination of Sen. Barack Obama. To many African Americans, more disturbing than the sheer bodaciousness of such comments was the probability that Huckabee, Clinton, and Trotta merely said aloud what many, many others were thinking.