dangerosity

noun

1. (uncountable)The quality of being dangerous.

   “Naturally inquisitive, I ran the gauntlet of the place at the risk of my life. Remarking upon the “dangerosity” and its evident mismanagement to a stranger who proved to belong to the Forest City, he exclaimed. “Dangerous, well I should smile, and this is the great Union Depot of St. Louis.[…]””

   “He told of his dangerosity and liability to start an explosion that would blow up the court house and make the people in Lost Nation hunt their cyclone cellars.”

   “For a long time now the United States Senate has contained a mining man; sometimes there have been two or three of them; but always one sturdy representative of those sturdier pioneers and prospectors who, daring dangers of increditable dangerosity, have delved into the bosom of old Mother Earth and brought forth her glittering treasures—or have not brought them forth, as the case may be.”

   “A recent survey showed that 60 per cent of murders committed in the United States were at the hands of women. The peak of their dangerosity was set as the month of July.”

   “Why should a hunting licence be granted without checking the “dangerosity” of the applicant?”