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
This doubleness is exciting, but sometimes the conceit of the group session feels overstretched.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 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
Hall is mindful of this doubleness, which he traces back to his very early adolescence in Raleigh, N.C.
From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2021
I plummeted down past the zigzaggers, the students, the experts, through year after year of doubleness and smiles and compromise, into my own past.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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