[f. FOLIOSE + -ITY.] The state or condition of being foliose; abundance of foliage; in quot. with jocular allusion to FOLIO.
1847. De Quincey, Schlosser’s Lit. Hist., Wks. VIII. 44. It is exactly because he is not tedious, because he does not shoot into German foliosity, that Schlosser finds him ‘intolerable.’
