Originally Posted By: BranShea
How variable are those hits? And those are page hits,not dictionary hits. A fashion word is not a 'coined' word is it?
I get 69,300- English pages, 73.300- Dutch pages for gorgiousity.


I don't think you do -- I get 79. however, gorgeousity gets ~69,000. I make this incessant and somewhat sarcastic point because it was a misspelling that got this whole unfortunate thing started.

now, as to the 'legitimacy' of the word gorgeousity, I'll grant you that no legit dictionary seems to grant that this word does in fact exist; but if you do a book search, you'll find that it's been used in fiction since (at least) 1905.

but this is my favorite citation:
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh. It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now. As I slooshied, I knew such lovely pictures!
- Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

now I'm going to go see if I can find it in some other reference books on my shelf(s)..