[f. LUDICROUS: see -OSITY.] Ludicrousness.
1837. Berrows Worcester Jrnl., 16 Nov., 2/1. The cart drivers had not gone far when our friend in the sack evinced his ideas of the ludicrosity of his situation by an explosion of laughter.
1842. Leicestershire Mercury, 8 Jan., 4/2. PUNCH, or the LONDON CHARIVARI, Jan., appears in the form of an almanac, each page for a month, grotesquely illustrated with innumerable figures, and filled with puns and ludicrosities.
a. 1856. H. Miller, Cruise Betsey (1858), 399. Unintentional ludicrosities.
1856. J. Brown, Lett., in Life Cairns, xv. (1895), 422. There is a sort of sublime ludicrosity about it.