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freakishness::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | abnormality |
| Type of | strangeness, unfamiliarity |
| Derivation | freakish |
Examples of freakishness
freakishness
I wouldn't mind a man who looked like Christian Grey, but I wouldn't want all the freakishness.
From the independent.co.uk
Famous photographer Diane Arbus looked at everyday human life and found there a rich vein of freakishness.
From the timesunion.com
He becomes smitten by her freakishness and intellect.
From the sltrib.com
He doesn't know which story best captures this freakishness of foot, so he just keeps telling them.
From the smh.com.au
This is where control freakishness turns, well, masochistic.
From the healthland.time.com
It's not their freakishness that attracted Quinn to these extremes, it's the fact that they are impossible to categorise.
From the thisislondon.co.uk
He hadn't played a down of football since high school, but through sheer physical freakishness he held his own.
From the sportsillustrated.cnn.com
I watch, mesmerized by the freakishness of it all, but wonder how different Marleigh is from average girls all across America.
From the newsweek.com
On top of that, the freakishness of the fluctuating temperature over the past few days helped add up to one unstable snowpack.
From the denverpost.com
- Abnormality: marked strangeness as a consequence of being abnormal
- (freakish) capricious: changeable; "a capricious summer breeze"; "freakish weather"
- (freakish) characteristic of a freak; "a freakish extra toe"
- (freakish) bizarre: conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual; "restaurants of bizarre design--one like a hat, another like a rabbit"; "famed for his eccentric spelling"; "a freakish combination of styles"; "his off-the-wall antics"; "the outlandish clothes of teenagers"; "outre and ...
- (Freakish) In contemporary usage, the word "freak" is commonly used to refer to a person with something unusual about their appearance or behaviour. This usage dates from the so-called freak scene of the 1960s and 1970s. ...
