astoundingness
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From astounding + -ness.
Noun
[edit]astoundingness (uncountable)
- The quality of being astounding.
- 1883, William Henry Bishop, chapter 2, in The House of a Merchant Prince[1], Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, page 23:
- Klauser defended himself in but a jumbled way. He could plead only the comparative astoundingness of the fact that Rodman Harvey should have been found at his place of business at that hour.
- 1909, Arnold Bennett, chapter 34, in The Glimpse: An Adventure of the Soul[2], London: Chapman & Hall, page 277:
- The astoundingness of the episode had shaken him violently out of his groove.
- 1938, Leonard Feeney, Elizabeth Seton: An American Woman, New York: America Press, “Emmitsburg,” p. 213,[3]
- In March a most astounding postulant arrived (for even among nuns there can be degrees of astoundingness), a young girl named Elizabeth Boyle, who, though of an Irish name, was of an English family and was a convert from Episcopalianism.