amazingnessn.
/əˈmeɪzɪŋnᵻs/, U.S. /əˈmeɪzɪŋnᵻs/ The quality or state of being amazing.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > quality of inspiring wonder > [noun]
wonderc1220
marvelc1300
marvelness1434
marvellousness1538
wonderfulness1574
miraculousness1581
wonderment1596
prodigiousness1649
mirability1650
stupendiousness1652
amazingness1677
stupendousnessa1706
wondrousness1851
stupendiosity1912
1677 F. Bampfield All in One 88 To praedicate these abstracts of the Earth, as if it were amazingness, shamefulness, deformedness, formlesness, emptyness (or shapelesness) and voidness..seemeth to reproach Creating Aelohim.
1735 W. Pardon Dyche's New Gen. Eng. Dict. Monstrousness, Strangeness Surprizingness, Wonderfulness, Amazingness.
1830 H. Grant Ld. Byron's Cain 61 The amazingness of the provision of that better life which this very death was the forerunner of.
1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 562/1 The surpassing amazingness of it [sc. God's goodness] in the work of our redemption.
1925 F. M. Ford No More Parades 194 It was not until she was well out of the house and down the street that its true amazingness took her breath away.
1985 Washington Post (Nexis) 26 Oct. b1 Message to Spielberg: Funnyness is preferable to amazingness.
2003 D. Levithan Boy meets Boy 171 There's more amazingness in him than in anyone else I've known.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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