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
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
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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