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Weirdness   /wˈɪrdnəs/   Listen
Weirdness

noun
1.
Strikingly out of the ordinary.  Synonyms: bizarreness, outlandishness.






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"Weirdness" Quotes from Famous Books



... be heard getting up hurriedly, stumbling against something, and Levin saw, facing him in the doorway, the big, scared eyes, and the huge, thin, stooping figure of his brother, so familiar, and yet astonishing in its weirdness and sickliness. ...
— Anna Karenina • Leo Tolstoy

... nest of bark and sawdust. It was warm and odorous. Nevertheless, they both deemed it necessary to enwrap themselves in the single blanket. The eye beamed fitfully upon them, occasionally a wave of lambent tremulousness passed across it; its weirdness was an excuse for their drawing nearer each other ...
— Frontier Stories • Bret Harte

... wagering small amounts on the throw of the dice, a flickering camp-fire near by dimly lighting up the blanket and making the reading of the dice a difficult matter for any but the keenest of eyes. The sing-song calls of the players added to the weirdness of ...
— The Pony Rider Boys in New Mexico • Frank Gee Patchin

... and disordered mind the act was so essentially feminine and natural, so remote from ghostly weirdness, that he raised himself on his elbow and exclaimed, ...
— Without a Home • E. P. Roe

... head! Oh, the horrible monstrosity on the stool in the corner then! There were no eyes in that room that had any desire to look upon it. And the cries and the "Quelle injustice!" that fell on the ears then from the hidden feelings had all the weirdness of the unseen, but heard. And all the other girls in the room, in fear and trembling, would begin to move their lips in a perfect whirlwind of study, or write violently on their slates, or begin at that very instant to rule off their copy-books ...
— Balcony Stories • Grace E. King

... weirdness the goblin-like scene created in her mind, the grimaces and antics of the manikin, and the sulkily responsive movements of the bear, were too absurd for anything. She thought of Rory's story of how the "b'ar" resented being left out of its share in Pepin's ...
— The Rising of the Red Man - A Romance of the Louis Riel Rebellion • John Mackie



Words linked to "Weirdness" :   strangeness, unfamiliarity, weird



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