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Meaning of "shockingness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SHOCKINGNESS

shockingness  [ˈʃɒkɪŋnəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SHOCKINGNESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Shockingness 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 SHOCKINGNESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of shockingness in the English dictionary

The definition of shockingness in the dictionary is the quality of being shocking.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SHOCKINGNESS


beingness
ˈbiːɪŋnəs
belongingness
bɪˈlɒŋɪŋnəs
boringness
ˈbɔːrɪŋnəs
cunningness
ˈkʌnɪŋnəs
fittingness
ˈfɪtɪŋnəs
flowingness
ˈfləʊɪŋnəs
interestingness
ˈɪntrəstɪŋnəs
knowingness
ˈnəʊɪŋnəs
overweeningness
ˌəʊvəˈwiːnɪŋnəs
painstakingness
ˈpeɪnzteɪkɪŋnəs
pressingness
ˈprɛsɪŋnəs
sneakingness
ˈsniːkɪŋnəs
stinkingness
ˈstɪŋkɪŋnəs
strikingness
ˈstraɪkɪŋnəs
takingness
ˈteɪkɪŋnəs
teemingness
ˈtiːmɪŋnəs
temptingness
ˈtemptɪŋnəs
thinkingness
ˈθɪŋkɪŋnəs
trustingness
ˈtrʌstɪŋnəs
unthinkingness
ʌnˈθɪŋkɪŋnəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SHOCKINGNESS

shock resistant
shock tactics
shock therapy
shock troops
shock tube
shock wave
shock-horror
shockability
shockable
shocked
shocker
shockheaded
shocking
shocking pink
shockingly
Shockley
shockproof
shockstall
shockumentaries
shockumentary

WORDS THAT END LIKE SHOCKINGNESS

bigness
business
graspingness
lastingness
lovingness
nothingness
overbearingness
savingness
shiningness
smugness
snugness
strongness
swimmingness
thrivingness
trigness
unchangingness
unerringness
unwillingness
unyieldingness
willingness
wrongness

Synonyms and antonyms of shockingness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «shockingness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SHOCKINGNESS

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

Translator English - Chinese

shockingness
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

shockingness
570 millions of speakers

English

shockingness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

shockingness
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

shockingness
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

shockingness
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

shockingness
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

shockingness
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

shockingness
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kejutan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

shockingness
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

shockingness
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

shockingness
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kejutan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

shockingness
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

shockingness
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

धक्कादायकपणा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

shockingness
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

shockingness
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

shockingness
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

shockingness
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

shockingness
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

shockingness
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

shockingness
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

shockingness
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

shockingness
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of shockingness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SHOCKINGNESS»

The term «shockingness» is used very little and occupies the 162.831 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SHOCKINGNESS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «shockingness» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «shockingness» 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 shockingness

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SHOCKINGNESS»

Discover the use of shockingness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to shockingness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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On the Grammar of Optative Constructions
of shockingness), anti-additivity does seem to be one of its properties. The clauses in (704) feel contradictory, indicating that shockingness might well be anti-additive, as summarized in (705).15 Under such a view, probability theory would ...
Patrick Georg Grosz, 2012
2
The works ...: with some account of his life ...
93. he seems to find out that all the shockingness is placed on the peculiar fitness of Christ's example, &c. All that I can say in this case is, to promise his lordship never to answer such arguments. His lordship sometimes divides his paragraphs  ...
Thomas Sherlock, 1830
3
Reform Judaism for the Rest of Us: Faith Versus Political ...
And by the poignancy which is relevant to aesthetics I mean not any and every shockingness or impressiveness, but the kind of shockingness and impressiveness that expends itself in vision, that in a sense luxuriates in the latter and that does ...
Alexander Maller, 2012
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The works of Benjamin Hoadly
And the Shockingness being placed in this; I argued, not that there was No Dis- ference, but No great Dfirence, as to the Sbockingnesc, between laying what the Dean allows, and what He so vehemently condemns. Having observed these ...
Benjamin Hoadly, 1773
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Proceedings
an air of vagueness. In D. H. Lawrence's account of it (in Pornography and Obscenity) he points to a general connection with shockingness, but this must at least give us not his suggested equivalent of 'what shocks me' but an interpersonal ...
‎1968
6
Remarks on a Book Intitled Christianity as Old as the ...
... of abstaining from Blood, upon themselves , without a divine Commandment : And I cannot help thinking, that there is a Savage- ness unbecoming benevolent humane Nature in eating Blood, though Use, I grant, takes off the Shockingness ...
John Jackson, 1731
7
Emotion and Spirit
And the more intolerable it is, the more does he assert with certainty the shockingness of the outer figure, which is a projection of his own perceived badness. It is because the fundamental refusal of the Lifegiver has not been conceptualized in ...
Neville Symington, 1994
8
How to Tell God from the Devil: On the Way to Comedy
Insofar as Zen wishes to shock, let us give way at the outset to added shockingness: A monk who saw Yao-shan (758-834) meditating asked: "In this motionless position what are you thinking?" "Thinking that which is beyond thinking." "How do ...
Arthur Roy Eckardt
9
Gin: The Much-lamented Death of Madam Geneva
That most excellent part of the human species, whose principal glory is their affection to their innocent infants, would do well to reflect upon the shockingness of a fault, which entails misery upon their harmless progeny as long as they live.
Patrick Dillon, 2004
10
The Heart of War: On Power, Conflict and Obligation in the ...
... a status as a pivot point in history as the shockingness of the act itself seemed to deserve: a great action with a great consequence. But, as always in history, it is not automatically the case that this correlation holds. Professor James Rosenau ...
Gwyn Prins, 2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SHOCKINGNESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term shockingness is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Spider Baby (Blu-ray)
... this touching, good-hearted core, even more than the cleverness or shockingness or sexiness of the film, that makes it continue to resonate with new viewers. «DVD Talk, Jun 15»
2
Aussie talent in running for coveted Palme dÓr at 68th Cannes Film …
“I don't think you need to invent the shockingness of it, and we haven't shied away from the brutality of the time.” Justin Kurzel, director of Snowtown and ... «The Daily Telegraph, May 15»
3
Sirens sound as Israel honours its fallen
"For those of us who went through it, there is nothing that can compare to its intensity, its shockingness, its pain and its torment, and we know that the wound will ... «Channel News Asia, Apr 15»
4
The 11 greatest movie sex scenes
Besides death, sex is the great leveller – von Trier wants to restore the shockingness of that idea, and dazzlingly succeeds. 7. Wild Things (John McNaughton, ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Feb 15»
5
The Jacket Designer's Challenge: To Capture A Book By Its Cover
And the answer, in this case for me, was by using only shapes. And there was a kind of shockingness to that at the time to use an abstract jacket for something ... «KRVS, Oct 14»
6
Marvel Civil War: The Naysayers Are WRONG About Iron Man vs …
They've had their little moment of shockingness, and it's out of their system. I know for a fact that Marvel will take their time to make sure every little detail of a ... «moviepilot.com, Oct 14»
7
Crumbling Pillars Of Feminine Convention: Viv Albertine's …
... on sex and sexuality, in an age where women were caught between sexploitation and slut-shaming, could be usefully subversive in its shockingness. Beyond ... «The Quietus, Jul 14»
8
Kroger Shooting: One Year Later
"The nature of his departure, the way it happened, the shockingness of it, that still leaves a wound," says Davis' brother-in-law, Leo Glover-Muhammad. «13WMAZ, Dec 13»
9
Simon Schama meets Grayson Perry
“Oh,” says Perry, “shockingness is such a cliché now – skulls, the tattooed street artist, the piercings – they're from a different time. We're all bohemians now; that ... «Financial Times, Jun 13»
10
'Modern Family' composer returns to Sundance to 'Rectify' situation
"It's almost shocking in its non-shockingness," Mann said. "Which, to me, is one of the great attractions. I had a great time working on it." "Rectify" is scheduled to ... «Salt Lake Tribune, Jan 13»

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« EDUCALINGO. Shockingness [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/shockingness>. Apr 2024 ».
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