fabulosity

[Benjamin Zimmer]

Not a new word but a recently revived one. OED has cites for
"fabulosity" only as late as 1807, in the older senses relating to
fables. Also appears in Webster's unabridged dictionaries through the
3rd New International but not in any other modern dictionaries that
I've checked.

Anyway, expect an uptick in usage now that it's the title of a new
book by Kimora Lee Simmons (wife of hiphop impresario Russell
Simmons):

http://www.gawker.com/
http://www.kirkusreviews.com/kirkusreviews/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001737446

The Kirkus review also includes "glamazon", noted last October by
Barry P. in a New York Post Page Six photo caption.


--Ben Zimmer