bizarreness

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UK/bɪˈzɑː.nəs/US/bɪˈzɑɹ.nəs/

noun

The state or quality of being bizarre.

“The room's bizarreness was underscored by the massive rubber duck serving as a conference table.”

Scrabble 22

Meanings

nounbizarreness (usually uncountable, plural bizarrenesses)

plural bizarrenesses

  1. uncountableusuallyThe state or quality of being bizarre.

    The room's bizarreness was underscored by the massive rubber duck serving as a conference table.

    2 more examples

    Here doctors confront diseases that are obscure and vaguely medieval, the triumph over them further romanticized by the sheer bizarreness of the challenge.

    2007 June 18, Ginia Bellafante, “Doctor, Give Me the News, and Sew Me Up Pretty”, in New York Times

    Using block data from the 2000 census, Miller and Chambers have computed bizarreness for the congressional districts of Connecticut, Maryland, and New Hampshire.

    2009 February 13, Barry Cipra, “JOINT MATHEMATICS MEETINGS: Can Mathematics Map the Way Toward Less-Bizarre Elections?”, in Science, volume 323, number 5916, →DOI
  2. countableusuallyThe result or product of being bizarre.

Synonyms & antonyms

nounstrikingly out of the ordinary

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

Translations

Spanish bizarría
  • bizarríaTranslations
Cite this entry
APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bizarreness,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bizarreness.

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