Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character of being utter or extreme; extremity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The quality or state of being utter, or extreme; extremity; utmost; uttermost.
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- noun The state or condition of being
utter .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality of being complete or utter or extreme
Etymologies
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Examples
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At one time, before we were well out of the Arboretum, our eyes met, and there was something so sad and mild and strange in the burn of her gaze that I felt her frank spirit was unveiling itself in an utterness of speech.
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John, I did try to strike you with the utterness of that perversity on the Abergavenny thread!
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There is something sad about the utterness with which President Bush has proved unequal to his job.
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And I thought the cry to have an utterness of supplication within it; so that I grew desperate to up and go to running; yet did curb such foolishness, and stayed very hushed, to listen.
The Night Land 2007
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Many of them are in the grip of an intoxicating metaphysics of utterness that creates signature moments of total theatrics.
Day into Noir Douglas, Ann 2007
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Many of them are in the grip of an intoxicating metaphysics of utterness that creates signature moments of total theatrics.
Day into Noir Douglas, Ann 2007
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Or even existence ends by becoming too limiting a name for that which abides solely for ever; there is only a timeless Eternal, a spaceless Infinite, the utterness of the Absolute, a nameless peace, an overwhelming single objectless Ecstasy.
Just how closely word, deed, and action were combined Tusar N Mohapatra 2006
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Mahbub snapped his fingers to show the utterness of that end, and his eyes blazed like red coals.
Kim 2003
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Even now, as I sit here in the stillness of desperation, afraid of I know not what, trembling with a strange dread of some impending doom, gazing in fright backward along the shores of the years whereon I see the wrecks of a thousand hopes, the destruction of every noble aspiration, the ruin of every noble resolve, I cry aloud against the utterness of the destroyer.
Fifteen Years in Hell Luther Benson
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It took time for him to realize the utterness with which his plans had collapsed.
The Homesteaders A Novel of the Canadian West Robert J. C. Stead 1919
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