bewilderingness

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noun

Quality of being bewildering.

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Meanings

nounbewilderingness (uncountable)
  1. uncountableQuality of being bewildering.

    Then the bewilderingness of the old starings of the solitary old man and old woman, by the cracked hearth-stone of the desolate old house, in the desolate, round, open space[…]

    1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities

Origin

From bewildering + -ness.

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bewilderingness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bewilderingness

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“bewilderingness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bewilderingness. Accessed November 4, 2026.

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