单词 | outréness |
释义 | outrénessn. The quality of being outré; singularity; eccentricity, peculiarity. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > abnormality > [noun] > bizarreness outlandishness1611 freakishness1678 bizarrerie1741 outréness1832 freakiness1886 bizarreness1920 ostrobogulosity1951 ostrobogulation1952 1832 J. L. Motley Let. 1 July in Corr. (1889) I. ii. 19 The University towns [in Germany] are the homes of ‘outré-ness’. 1882 N. Hawthorne Dr. Grimshawe viii A certain seemly beauty in him showed strikingly the..outréness of the rest of their lot. 1994 Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tennessee) (Nexis) 10 July e4 We ordered the dish almost for the sheer outreness of the concept. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1832 |
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