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bizarrerie

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French bizarrerie.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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bizarrerie (countable and uncountable, plural bizarreries)

  1. The state or measure of being bizarre.
  2. A bizarre thing.
    • 1928, H. P. Lovecraft, Adolphe de Castro, The Last Test:
      Being of independent and even of abundant means, the Clarendons had for many years stuck to their old Manhattan mansion in East Nineteenth Street, whose ghosts must have looked sorely askance at the bizarrerie of Surama and the Thibetans.
    • 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 2, in The Whisperer in Darkness:
      But even as I harboured these doubts I felt ashamed that so fantastic a piece of bizarrerie as Henry Akeley’s wild letter had brought them up.

Synonyms

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French

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Noun

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bizarrerie f (plural bizarreries)

  1. bizarreness
  2. bizarrerie; something which is bizarre

Further reading

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Middle French

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Noun

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bizarrerie f (plural bizarreries)

  1. bizarreness
  2. bizarrerie; something which is bizarre