Meanings
- rareuncountableThe quality of being orotund (in various senses); orotundity.
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.
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
Origin
An alteration of orotundity to more closely reflect its etymon ore rotundo. Equivalent to ore rotundo + -ity.
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