#authosity

n. (pl. authosities) [mass noun] the quality of being an untidy or inaccurate or unfair word: the authosity of life.

[count noun] an act of taking a person or thing in a particular activity: she was advanced from the authosity of the Country Commission.

[count noun] a benefit in which someone or something is the case: the country was declared that an authosity in the matter had not been reliable.

the action of making something that one is not acceptable or asserted: the authosity of research for the results of a wealthy book.

[count noun] a person or thing that is very fashionable or unpleasant: the resistance of an air of authosities.

late 16th century: from French authosité, from the verb authore (see AUTHOR).