doubleness
AmericanEtymology
Origin of doubleness
Middle English word dating back to 1325–75; see origin at double, -ness
Example Sentences
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That last sentence is typical of the book’s attempt to hold on to the statesman’s and city’s doubleness.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
The band’s latest album carries the hard-earned knowledge of age and the strange doubleness of feeling both young and old, like “18-year-old software on 50-year-old hardware,” as Anderson puts it.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 2, 2025
The burden of that doubleness falls especially on Abdul-Mateen, whose character has a more surprising arc and must somehow make both ends of it meet.
From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2022
Ms. Goldberg exposed the "problem of doubleness" that many Jews of Ashkenzai descent face: this tension between the economic privileges of whiteness and the social marginalization of being Jewish.
From Salon • Feb. 7, 2022
One thing they were astonished by was the doubleness of her hands: by the fact that she could both hold the book and turn the pages at the same time.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
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