doubleness

American  

[duhb-uhl-nis] / ˈdʌb əl nɪs /

noun

1. the quality or condition of being double.

2. deception or dissimulation.

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Etymology

Origin of doubleness

Middle English word dating back to 1325–75; double, -ness

Example Sentences

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

There’s a special heartbreak that arises from the doubleness of someone’s being here but not here.

From New York Times • Aug. 31, 2021

As a man riddled with sympathy, riven with a nagging appreciation for all sides, he’s doomed to bewilderment, to irony, to a maddening sense of his own irreconcilable doubleness.

From Washington Post • Feb. 22, 2021

I read “The Open Boat”, Stephen Crane’s gripping tale of survival at sea, Joseph Conrad’s haunting account of doubleness, “The Secret Sharer”, and Julio Cortázar’s ingenious Möbius strip of a story, “Continuity of Parks”.

From The Guardian • Jul. 18, 2020

It’s the matching bedspreads, the night tables, the lamps, the bureaus, the doubleness of everything in their room, that gives me this impression.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood