outrageousness

English

Etymology

outrageous +‎ -ness

Noun

outrageousness (plural outrageousnesses)

1. The quality of being outrageous.
   • 2022, NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory, Chatto & Windus, page 253:

     The first time Tuvy confided his dream to his mates […] they’d howled with cruel laughter at the outrageousness of it, the silliness of it, the impossibility of it.

Related terms

• outrageously