Definition of "splendidity"
splendidity
noun
uncountable
The quality of being splendid.
Quotations
A magazine in Chicago is announced as “splendidly gotten up,” and the “splendidity” of which can be described only by such rhapsodical circulars as the publishers of the magazine issue.
1884 May 20, “The Chromo-Premium Business”, in Sacramento Daily Record-Union, volume LI, number 76 (whole 10,326), Sacramento, Calif.
It would, indeed, be difficult to name anyone to-day who has diffused more innocent enjoyment throughout this murky winter kingdom than Tom Smith, with all his works and pomps and Christmas-crackers, which yearly grow in size, sentiment, skittishness, and what the schoolboy called “splendidity.”
1900, Algernon Rose, editor, ‘A439’: Being the Autobiography of a Piano, London: Sands & Company, page 365
The reverence and splendidity, displayed by Bhikshuni Vishakha as the Superintendent of the illustrious rolls of nuns like Amrapali and Supiya26 and the magnitude and excellence, attained by Dhammadima after renunciation of the worldly life, are unparalleled in the history of the world.
1999, Prajñā-bhāratī, page 50
So we all headed up Scar Lane, past the wool and wooden shop, past the ex car showroom now a Curry House as previously mentioned and past Boa Vista were my Aunt and Uncle used to live in opulent splendidity before the big water drought of ‘86 caused them to sell the Garden Centre they owned next door.
2011, Mark Christopher Lee, Weird — The Life And Times Of A Pocket God, page 24