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Meaning of "outlandishness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF OUTLANDISHNESS

outlandishness  [aʊtˈlændɪʃnəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF OUTLANDISHNESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Outlandishness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES OUTLANDISHNESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of outlandishness in the English dictionary

The definition of outlandishness in the dictionary is the quality or state of being grotesquely unconventional in appearance, habits, etc. Other definition of outlandishness is foreignness.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH OUTLANDISHNESS


bearishness
ˈbɛərɪʃnəs
bluishness
ˈbluːɪʃnəs
boyishness
ˈbɔɪɪʃnəs
brackishness
ˈbrækɪʃnəs
bullishness
ˈbʊlɪʃnəs
caddishness
ˈkædɪʃnəs
cloddishness
ˈklɒdɪʃnəs
Englishness
ˈɪŋɡlɪʃnəs
faddishness
ˈfædɪʃnəs
fiendishness
ˈfiːndɪʃnəs
girlishness
ˈɡɜːlɪʃnəs
greenishness
ˈɡriːnɪʃnəs
jadishness
ˈdʒeɪdɪʃnəs
Jewishness
ˈdʒuːɪʃnəs
kiddishness
ˈkɪdɪʃnəs
laddishness
ˈlædɪʃnəs
maidishness
ˈmeɪdɪʃnəs
modishness
ˈməʊdɪʃnəs
reddishness
ˈrɛdɪʃnəs
wordishness
ˈwɜːdɪʃnəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE OUTLANDISHNESS

outlaid
outland
outlander
outlandish
outlandishly
outlash
outlast
outlaugh
outlaw
outlaw regime
outlaw state
outlawries
outlawry
outlay
outlead
outleap
outlearn
outler
outlet
outlet mall

WORDS THAT END LIKE OUTLANDISHNESS

Britishness
business
Caithness
childishness
foolishness
foppishness
freshness
harshness
highness
lushness
much of a muchness
rashness
richness
roughness
Royal Highness
selfishness
smoothness
stylishness
thoroughness
toughness
unselfishness

Synonyms and antonyms of outlandishness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «outlandishness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF OUTLANDISHNESS

Find out the translation of outlandishness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of outlandishness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «outlandishness» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

异国情调
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

extravagancia
570 millions of speakers

English

outlandishness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

outlandishness
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الغرابة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

outlandishness
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

outlandishness
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

outlandishness
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

outlandishness
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ketenangan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Absonderlichkeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

outlandishness
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

outlandishness
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Outlandishness
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

outlandishness
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

outlandishness
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

परकीयपणा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

outlandishness
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

outlandishness
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

outlandishness
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

outlandishness
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

outlandishness
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

παραδοξότητα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

outlandishness
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

outlandishness
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

outlandishness
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of outlandishness

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «OUTLANDISHNESS»

The term «outlandishness» is used very little and occupies the 161.447 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «OUTLANDISHNESS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «outlandishness» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «outlandishness» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about outlandishness

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OUTLANDISHNESS»

Discover the use of outlandishness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to outlandishness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Passing: A Strategy to Dissolve Identities and Remap Differences
In a similar fashion, Anita Desai takes this conclusion to the extreme when, in her splendid novel Baumgartner's Bombay, she speaks about the outlandishness of her protagonist Hugo Baumgartner. "Outlandishness," even more than Naipaul's  ...
Anna Camaiti Hostert, 2007
2
The Flamethrowers: A Novel
At its center is Kushner’s brilliantly realized protagonist, a young woman on the verge. Thrilling and fearless, this is a major American novel from a writer of spectacular talent and imagination.
Rachel Kushner, 2013
3
The Fictionary: A Vocabulous Flexicon of Jocumolecular Jingo ...
To exhaust all alternatives to style through endless elaborations and flamboyant outlandishness and/or endless outlandishness and flamboyant elaborations or endless alternatives to exhaustive elaborations and/or endless elaborations to ...
Dug Fresh, 2005
4
The Second Coming
No, hemarried herfor the very outlandishness ofit, marrying herin Northport being as faras he could getfrom wherehe had come from. No, he married her because she was such agood cheerful forthright Northern Episcopal Christian and ...
Walker Percy, 2011
5
Fictional and Historical Worlds
... la lettre?—empties out the centerand “paradoxically createsinus the intimation ofa fullness thatwe can savor only in the convictionofits irremediable loss.”70. Law. and. Outlandishness. The final chapter, 'Martial Law in the Land of Cockaigne,”
Jonathan Hart, 2012
6
The Paradox of Political Philosophy: Socrates' Philosophic Trial
Outlandishness. Another important theme introduced by the Theaetetus' 's prologue is that of homecoming and exile.12 As we have already observed, the prologue invites us to reflect upon the attitudes of the political community toward the ...
Jacob Howland, 1998
7
The Journal of Speculative Philosophy
the passion of outrage, whereby the outlander becomes outcast. The latter all too readily transforms genuine outlandishness into uncompromising arrogance, as the testimony against Socrates, not just in the indictment repeated in the Apology,  ...
William Torrey Harris, 1993
8
Fashion Theory: An Introduction
And that is clearly what is expected to happen here: once one knows that the times are revolutionary and filled with unrest, one will be able to see this reflected in the outlandishness ofthe things people are wearing and understand them more ...
Malcolm Barnard, 2014
9
Platonic Questions: Dialogues with the Silent Philosopher
Dialogues with the Silent Philosopher Diskin Clay. birds, male midwife to young men, an electric eel, a silenus, a satyr, Marsyas — all of these comparisons register the fact of Socrates' "outlandishness" (atopia) and taken together illustrate the ...
Diskin Clay, 2010
10
The Message in the Bottle: How Queer Man Is, How Queer ...
something else — and further, that its beauty often seems proportionate to its wrongness or outlandishness. Not that the single linguistic metaphor represents the highest moment of the poetic imagination; it probably does not. Dante, as Allen ...
Walker Percy, 2000

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OUTLANDISHNESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term outlandishness is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Ontario City Council meetings are perking up again
Ontario City Council meetings have been quiet — too quiet? — after the outlandishness of last year. But the post-election calm seems to be ... «Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, Jul 15»
2
Bizarre Car of the Week: Camouflaged 1984 Maserati Quattroporte
There's a popular phrase used to describe super-fast, super-luxurious cars that refrain from outlandishness: "under the radar." This week's ... «New York Daily News, Jul 15»
3
Three comics artists detail the importance of smart, stylish costume …
Something that I've always gravitated to superhero comics for, and something I feel it does well, is the outlandishness. This is a place where ... «A.V. Club, Jul 15»
4
Anybody for Murder
Outrageous plays are hard to pull off because the very outlandishness of the plot constantly reminds the audience that what they are seeing ... «The Stage, Jul 15»
5
The truest sentence in the Des Moines Register's takedown of …
But, that tends to be the result of reflexive partisanship rather than the pure outlandishness of the proposals. Now, consider what Trump has ... «Washington Post, Jul 15»
6
Put a Mask on It: SAM's Contemporary Take on Traditional African Art
There's an outlandishness that makes everyone a gawker (or a critic-in-the-street, searching for meaning); these proud filmed marches remind ... «Seattle Weekly, Jul 15»
7
For Robert Kirkman's Skybound Entertainment, the Sky's the Limit
... eyes or dinosaurs, but the production team has been having a good time bringing some of the outlandishness of the game to the real world. «StreamingMedia.com, Jul 15»
8
Shelf Life - No Pain No Game
In a genre that trades in outlandishness, stagnation is the kiss of death. Sadly, the characters also aren't as lovable this time around. While the ... «Anime News Network, Jul 15»
9
Kosmicki: Highway 25 puts the mad in madness
He was so loud, one of two women in the last car heard all of it and paused their music over the outlandishness. “That's unreal,” she said to her ... «Hollister Free Lance, Jul 15»
10
Wayward Pines Review: “The Friendliest Place On Earth”
... from being the show you keep thinking may evolve into something better, to the show that you tune into to chuckle at the outlandishness. «Paste Magazine, Jul 15»

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