astoundingness

Definitions

The quality of being astounding.

uncountable

Examples

“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.”

“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, 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.”

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