preposterity

plural preposterities

1. countablerareuncountableSynonym of preposterosity

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   One imagines it would have been natural for him to have obtained the first man from the first woman in the manner described by the evangelist of the New Testament. But the most striking and serious of all these preposterities is that which is involved in the notions of the Fall of Man and original sin.

   1888, Clement Mansfield Ingleby, “Law and Religion”, in Essays, London: Trübner & Co., →OL, pages 115–116

   Synonyms: preposterosity