"fantasticity" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: fantastic + -ity Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|fantastic|ity}} fantastic + -ity Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} fantasticity (uncountable)
  1. (rare) The state of being fantastic. Tags: rare, uncountable Synonyms: fantasticalness Translations (state): fantastisuus (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-fantasticity-en-noun-PpGxaiEl Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ity

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          "ref": "1937, Nagendra Nath Ghosh, The Aryan Trail in Iran and India, page 257",
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          "ref": "1976 November 7, Madame Chiang Kai-shek, “Conversations With Mikhail Borodin (Part II)”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVII, number 44, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page D",
          "text": "Again to give you some idea of the fantasticity of crassitude and of violence, Balitsky, head of the G.P.U. in the Ukraine, estimated eight to nine million died in the Ukraine alone in the nineteen-thirties, not to mention those who died of starvation in the Urals, Trans-Volga and Eastern Siberia.",
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          "ref": "1993, DAvid Fideler, Alexandria 2, volume 2, page 86",
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