preposterosity

Noun

1. The quality of being preposterous.
   • “Dresses in such bad taste!” smiled Miss Marguerita—Marguerita was a model of preposterosity in fashion. - 1834, [Julia Pardoe], chapter XIII, in Speculation: […], volume I, London: Saunders and Otley, […], page 230:
   • […] as to the gentleman’s ideal of preposterosity—that this proposition is too preposterous to be considered for a moment—in more than half the States of the Union, the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court is...
   • […] if anybody had the temerity then to predict that an acre of lawn could be sown down some day at a nominal cost of as many shillings as it would then require pounds to effect, there would have been no end of opinions...

   Synonyms: preposterousness

2. Something that is preposterous.
   • The awkwardness of your feelings during an interview with Mr. Lambert, or any other polished Monster on public view—with the painful restraint laid by your delicacy on your curiosity, as to the particulars of his...
   • Had Pliny turned his attention to the more elevated parts of the body, we might perhaps have found that the structure of their heads was equally retrograde with that of their heels; and on this principle some modern...
   • […]—they return in the preposterosities of fashion, in the thirst for pleasurable gratifications, with a confusion of ideas floating in their brain, similar to the evaporations of intoxicating wine, with airy and unreal...