well, I just had this gnawing suspicion that wasn't an entirely new topic; to wit,

the worthless word for [Monday, July 23, 2007] is: gorgeosity

[a blend of gorgeous & generosity(?)]
an abundance (generosity) of gorgeousness

"Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeosity made flesh."
- Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange (1962)

"I didn't want you to be hurt. So messy. But you got
going. I couldn't stop you. It was gorgeosity."
- Jesse Kellerman, Trouble (2007)

the absolute best thing about this is that I managed to capture two senses; the second usage seems to be more about gorge than gorgeousness!

edit: now *this spelling; i.e., gorgeosity, seems to be a 'real' variant, as it gets 27,900 ghits! as far as I can determine, Burgess actually spelled it gorgeosity, and others quote him inaccurately; perhaps they are really two *different words!?

edit(2): or maybe the different spellings are transpondial! : )

Last edited by tsuwm; 12/04/2009 9:29 PM.