doubleness
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- noun
- /ˈdaʊblnəs/
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ambigüedad
- In his later book, Ex-Friends, Podhoretz offers a more promising explanation for Trilling's reticence: a "doubleness" of outlook, as seen in the way he believed in and celebrated society and its restraints, but also wrote with great sympathy about the yearning for an unconditioned life.
The doubleness of the name and the doubleness of the terrain that sheds its skin twice a day, becoming water, then land and back again.
- The doubleness of the name and the doubleness of the terrain that sheds its skin twice a day, becoming water, then land and back again.
Examples
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Whereas Gaskell looks to the author's contribution to construction, my aim is to look at literary character from the point of view of readers and to elucidate what effects this doubleness has on their experience of encountering characters in fiction.
Academic text (2001) -
The Christian Church has, however, consistently resisted the desire to eliminate this tension, to eliminate, that is, the doubleness of human existence.
Academic text (1999) -
The doubleness of the name and the doubleness of the terrain that sheds its skin twice a day, becoming water, then land and back again.
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Here briefly is a picture of Heraclitus in which the above-insinuated sense of doubleness is important.
Academic text (2017) -
"Being facetious" does not capture entirely the doubleness of being playful and serious simultaneously.
Academic text (2017) -
To be sure, there is a doubleness to my story's claims: youth is fleeting; youth can endure through vision, memory, narrative itself.
Fiction book (1997) -
We find ourselves witness to a kind of startling doubleness: the conjunction of the fluency of flux with the constancy of form.
Academic text (2017) -
The response I want to suggest is to consider the doubleness differently, taking note of the reserve of communication: just so in terms of the overdeterminacy that is neither the indeterminate, the determinate, nor the self-determinate.
Academic text (2017) -
The doubleness of the image, together with its presence as a disruption of a dominant pattern, subtly figures the fissures, conflations, and especially repetitions in the historical field within which the identity of the individual German arises.
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The doubleness of her intentions was clear; she wanted to be supportive but also sought personal gain.
Synonyms
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6.3
A lack of clear meaning that allows people to understand it in different ways
A word or phrase with more than one meaning that causes confusion
A situation where something has more than one meaning and causes confusion
One word that has two or more different meanings
Antonyms
How Ambiguous
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Doubleness comes from the common word double, from the Latin duo 'two', and it describes when something has two sides or two meanings at once, like a sentence or a character that can be read in two different ways. So doubleness here means the state of having two aspects at the same time.