tediosity

From Middle English tediosite, tediouste, tedyosite, from tedious; compare Middle French tedieuseté.^[1]

tediosity (countable and uncountable, plural tediosities)

1. (now rare) The quality of being tedious.

   Synonym: tediousness

   • 1613–1614 (date written), John Fletcher, William Shak[e]speare, The Two Noble Kinsmen: , London: Tho Cotes, for Iohn Waterson;  , published 1634, →OCLC, Act III, scene v, page 43:

     Fy, fy, what tedioſity, & diſenſanity is here among ye?

   • 1957, The Dickensian, volumes 53–55, Dickens Fellowship, page 181:

     With barely a pretence of plot it was a feast of tediosity.

   • 1973 December 20, Charleskey, “Christmas crossword”, in New Scientist, volume 60, number 877, page 848:

     At home with flipping thing, I must touch extremes of tediosity—no end to this

   • 1990 July 13, Chris Moncrieff, “Inside Politics”, in Evening Post, number 34,774, Nottingham, Notts, page 6:

     At least one is spared the tediosity (what a very fine sentiment) of their pompous ramblings by not being able to understand a single word.

   • 1991 October 5, Chris Moncrieff, “Politics Today”, in Lincolnshire Echo, Lincoln, Lincs, page 13:

     So tediosity has reigned. All attempts at conflict have been stifled. The lid has been placed heavily on anyone who threatens to expose a fiery tongue.

   • 1992 February 7, “Ode to joy”, in H. Brandt Ayers, editor, The Anniston Star, volume 112, number 38, Anniston, Ala., page 4, column 1:

     Now in the. . .tediosity (don’t bother looking it up, trust us) of higher crime figures, droning political banalities, sleaze sheets trying to be newspapers and newspapers trying to avoid looking like sleaze sheets. . .

   • 1993 January 14, Ray Ratto, “Portrait of the new 49ers fan”, in San Francisco Examiner, 128th year, number 186, page D-1:

     Indeed, after the guy with the pointer dealt with the tediosities of storms in New England, jet streams out the Canadian plains and dew points, he delivered the pertinent news.

   • 2001 July 21, The Daily Telegraph, number 45,443, London, section “Motoring”, page 10:

     From tediosity personified to almost halfway decent, the Vauxhall Corsa has moved on, says Cathryn Espinosa

• “tediosity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.