Strangeness
['streɪn(d)ʒnɪs] or ['strendʒnɪs]
Definition
(n.) The state or quality of being strange (in any sense of the adjective).
Checked by Bryant
Examples
- But it is none the less a fact because of its strangeness, and the difficulty remains. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Then rub it off, Polly; rub the rust and the strangeness off. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- But this stupendous fragmentariness heightened the dreamlike strangeness of her bridal life. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The officers who ordered these acts, the men who obeyed, must surely have felt scared at the strangeness of the things they did. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The strangeness of Mr. Collins's making two offers of marriage within three days was nothing in comparison of his being now accepted. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- What strangeness can there be in relations dancing together? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- She sat up, bewildered by the strangeness of her surroundings; then memory returned, and she looked about her with a shiver. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- I recalled that inward sensation I had experienced: for I could recall it, with all its unspeakable strangeness. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Their oaths I hear at this moment: they shook my philosophy more than did the night, or the isolation, or the strangeness of the scene. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
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