Synonyms for outlandishness
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : out-lan-dish |
| Phonetic Transcription : aʊtˈlæn dɪʃ |
Top 10 synonyms for outlandishness
- aberration
- abnormality
- bizarreness
- caprice
- capriciousness
- conversation piece
- eccentricity
- extraordinariness
- foible
- freak
- freakishness
- hereticism
- idiocrasy
- kink
- nonconformity
- oddity
- oddness
- outlandishness
- queerness
- quirkiness
- singularity
- strangeness
- unconventionality
- unnaturalness
- unorthodoxness
- waywardness
- weirdness
- whimsicality
- whimsicalness
Définition of outlandishness
Origin :- Old English utlendisc "of a foreign country, not native," from utland "foreign land," literally "outland" (see out + land (n.)) + -ish. Sense of "unfamiliar, strange, odd, bizarre" (such as the customs of foreigners may seem to natives) is attested from 1590s.
- As in oddity : noun abnormality
- As in quirkiness : noun eccentricity
- As in singularity : noun eccentricity
- As in eccentricity : noun bizarreness, unusualness
- Perhaps it was just that outlandishness of the man which influenced old Swaffer.
- Extract from : « Amy Foster » by Joseph Conrad
- The outlandishness of his garb made him the more noticeable, he knew, and he wished to avoid being seen.
- Extract from : « The Jack-Knife Man » by Ellis Parker Butler
- It makes a great impression of outlandishness to see the signs over the shop doors in a foreign tongue.
- Extract from : « Passages From the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 1 » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- You see more of the outlandishness of fashion in one day on Broadway than in a week on any one street of Boston.
- Extract from : « Around The Tea-Table » by T. De Witt Talmage
- He was just enough civilized to show off his outlandishness in the strangest possible manners.
- Extract from : « Moby Dick; or The Whale » by Herman Melville
Antonyms for outlandishness
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