Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The condition or quality of being marvelous or wonderful.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality or state of being marvelous; wonderfulness; strangeness.

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  • noun The quality or state of being marvelous.

Etymologies

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marvelous +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • Answer: you already knew Moore’s marvelousness is inseparable from her strangeness.

    Marianne Moore and Revolution : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

  • First, I finally got to experience the marvelousness that is Phoenix Ranch Market.

    Archive 2007-10-01 Homesick Texan 2007

  • But just after that, I read this bit of marvelousness from star_tourmaline.

    Life imitates art and so on. kung_fu_monkey 2007

  • First, I finally got to experience the marvelousness that is Phoenix Ranch Market.

    Comfort me with banana pudding | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2007

  • This collection is, of course, worth buying and reading because of its marvelousness, but even more so because a portion of the profits go to charity.

    Review: Shining On: 11 Star Authors’ Illuminating Stories by Various Authors 2008

  • I think going through parenthood the second time around, particularly for a man, you get the sense of the marvelousness and miracleness of it all.

    The First Universal Nation 1991

  • Accordingly the readiness for, and the aptitude for, slave dance, so intimately associated with beauty and sexuality, displaying the female in her marvelousness, excitingness and need, scarcely need be noted.

    Magicians of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1988

  • Rather they are designed to call attention to it, and so reveal and display it, sometimes even brazenly, in all its marvelousness.

    Magicians of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1988

  • Accordingly the readiness for, and the aptitude for, slave dance, so intimately associated with beauty and sexuality, displaying the female in her marvelousness, excitingness and need, scarcely need be noted.

    Magicians of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1988

  • If she found such beauty, such sensuous liberation, such fulfilling joy, such reality, such honesty, the marvelousness of owned women before their masters, offensive or deplorable, why did she watch?

    Magicians of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1988

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