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
As with Michael’s doubleness, some care is taken to let us see her as conceivably the victim of a murder or an accident, as perfectly happy and less than perfectly happy, a true-crime Schrödinger’s cat.
From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2022
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
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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