bizarrity

plural bizarrities

1. countableuncountableThe quality of being bizarre.

   The Hugo that lived was just a Frenchman—loving bizarrity.

   1899 September 8, Kenneth Herford, “Victor Hugo—A Side Light”, in The Detroit Free Press, volume 64, number 349, Detroit, Mich., page 4

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   The bizarrity of many public “sayings and doings” can scarcely be outdone by the bizarrity of some of the queries.

   1824, Cincinnatus Caledonius [pseudonym; John Gordon Barbour], Queries Connected with Christianity, Edinburgh: […] D. Webster, page 299

   I do not kiss your hand, lest I might infest you with some of my bizarrity, but I make you a low courtesy, and I hope to see you again soon, under some new and interesting semblance.

   1885 April, The American Journal of Insanity, volume XLI, Utica, N.Y., page 496

   The former’s splendour gives a fine bizarrity, / The latter’s grace a charming regularity.

   1889, ““The Puffiad””, in Time, volume XIX, page 64

   In most [?] he was kind-hearted, and he prided himself, in the set he led, upon his artistic taste in the details of life, and upon what he called his “bizarrity” in all things.[…]Even Wray, with his refined “bizarrity” and cultured, blasé life, felt a wave of almost overpowering tenderness, brush swiftly across his heart as he told Margaret, on one of those ideally beautiful nights, that he loved her.[…]He seemed a shade less sprightly than of yore, and many people said there was not the same vim and energy about his work, or in the “bizarrity” of his ways, as there had been.

   1896 February 8, A. J. Dawson, “Two Unimportant Events”, in To-Day: A Weekly Magazine-Journal, volume X, number 118, London, pages 1–4

   But the schools have gone on the contrary assumption; they have stretched the ‘shorts’ on the Procrustean bed of normality, have forced them into the straight-jacket of a ‘system,’ have classicized their freakish and Romantic diversities, have uniformized their bizarrities, or sought to do so, and have failed.

   1913, School and Home Education, page 10

   Synonyms: bizarreness, bizarrerie