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freakishness

freakishness \freakishness\ n. marked strangeness or abnormality.

Syn: abnormality.

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freakishness

n. The characteristic or quality of being freakish

WordNet
freakishness

n. marked strangeness as a consequence of being abnormal [syn: abnormality]

Usage examples of "freakishness".

Then during the night the wind died away with its usual tropical freakishness, from a good breeze to a faint air, and from a faint air to a slow succession of fluky puffs which set the sails slatting and the rigging creaking and kept the watch continually at work at the braces trimming the sails.

With his outsize cranium, his mane of yellow hair, his petite body, and his arrogant freakishness, Van Dusen can't be imagined as welcome among the upper-crust British.

With the freakishness peculiar to fashion magazines, Lorna Munro had been required to model Gaultier's summer collection on a January day, on a windswept pavement.

At the very climax of the voyage, at their farthest south, the freakishness of Cape Horn weather displayed itself, when Lady Barbara awoke one morning to find the ship rising and swooping once more in orderly fashion, and Polwheal knocked at the cabin door with a message from the captain to the effect that this morning Lady Barbara might, if she wished, take advantage of the break in the weather to take the air on deck.