outrageousness
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7.2
- noun
- /aʊtˈreɪdʒəsnəs/
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escandalosidad
- What lingered after them was not life, but the most trivial list of mundane facts: …a clock ticking on the wall… …a room dim at noon… …the outrageousness of a human being thinking only of herself.
- a show about outrageousness
Examples
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Her outrageousness during the debate was both entertaining and shocking to the audience.
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Her position seems to be that the outrageousness of the way women are often treated in the street will speak for itself.
Blog text (18) -
We were all working in underground theatre, which involved a whole lot of outrageousness.
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It's a race to outdo each other in outrageousness, although the Japanese just might be going for the gold.
Blog text (5) -
But outrageousness was always your hallmark, wasn't it?
Fiction book (1999) -
"With so much fresh outrageousness being manufactured daily, I've chosen to do only minimal tinkering with the other essays in this book.
Fiction book (2002) -
Didn't Obama just show us all that staying serene in the face of right-wing outrageousness gets tangible results?
Blog text (11) -
The outrageousness of his actions shocked everyone at the event.
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Many people were surprised by the outrageousness of the fashion show, which featured bold and unusual designs.
Synonyms
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5.5
The feeling that something is unusual or hard to explain
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5.2
Something that is not normal and can be seen in the body or test results
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4.9
Being very silly or clearly unreasonable
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7.0
Being more extreme than normal in words or actions
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6.9
A state of being very strange or unusual that surprises people
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5.8
A state of being unusual or strange in a way that is hard to explain
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6.2
The state of having more than is needed
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7.0
How far something goes beyond normal limits
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9.8
A quality of being very bad and shocking
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7.7
The quality of being very unusual and making someone or something stand out
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7.8
A quality that makes something seem very surprising or hard to believe
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7.9
A state of being very silly and clearly against common sense
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8.4
Being very unusual in appearance, ideas, or behavior
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7.5
A quality of being very strange or different from most people
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6.1
A quality of being strange or unexpected, like odd weather
An amount or level much higher than reasonable
Going beyond what is reasonable in style, story, or claim
Antonyms
How Outrageous
Surface Forms
Morphology
outrageousness = outrageous (transparent) = outrage + ous + ness
Formed by adding the productive nominalizing suffix '-ness' to the adjective 'outrageous', so the meaning is directly the quality of being outrageous.
Etymology
Outrageousness comes from the word outrage, which once meant something 'beyond' normal limits, like the prefix ultra- that also means 'beyond'. So, something outrageous goes 'beyond' what people accept, and outrageousness is the quality of being very 'shocking' or 'excessive'.