ororotundity
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]An alteration of orotundity to more closely reflect its etymon ore rotundo.[1] Equivalent to ore rotundo + -ity.
Noun
[edit]ororotundity (uncountable)
- (rare) The quality of being orotund (in various senses); orotundity.
- 1980 Fall, William Harmon, Carol Eaton, Jeanne Heilakka, “Three Italians Visit Monticello”, in The Southern Literary Journal, volume XIII, number 1, Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 111–112:
- Salviati. "Oronymy." […] Sagredo. No: what was that that you said? / Simplicio. "O-ro-ro-ro-ny"? / Salviati. Just my ororotundity, if I may. I was merely returning to our previous discussion of the naming of mountains, and my poor mind meandered.
References
[edit]- ^ “ororotundity, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
