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
But the seeds of it, I think, were in that very doubleness which made it so powerful.
From Salon • Mar. 17, 2022
What is it like to live inside that doubleness, to practice a self-presentation that it also self-erasure?
From New York Times • Dec. 7, 2021
The curious thing was that the doubleness had disappeared and everything was single again; but there was no sign of Shadows.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
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