wonderfulnessn.
/ˈwʌndəf(ᵿ)lnəs/, U.S. /ˈwəndərfəlnəs/ The quality or condition of being wonderful.† 1. The state of being filled with wonder. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > [noun] > state of wonder
wonderc1290
ecstasyc1384
mazednessc1395
study?1397
mazec1425
wonderfulness1532
wonderment1535
gape1712
astoundment1810
marvelment1823
jouissance1968
1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer i. f. cccxxvii Angels ben adradde, not by frendes of drede,..[but] as [by] affection of wonderfulnesse & by seruyce of obedyence.
2. Wonderful character, marvellousness.
ΘΠ
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
1574 A. Golding tr. A. Marlorat Catholike Expos. Reuelation 3 He called the Wyze men by a strange starre,..the Gentiles by the wonderfulnesse of Miracles.
1579 T. Twyne tr. Petrarch Phisicke against Fortune i. xxx. 41 What by the wonderfulnesse and number of the woorkes, there was nothyng in all the whole world to be wondred at, but Rome.
1652 J. French York-shire Spaw iii. 32 The wonderfulnes of the waters that I shall mention, consists..in the strangeness of their colours, tasts, [etc.].
1674 W. Allen Danger of Enthusiasm 100 The wonderfulness of his Birth of a Virgin.
1715 W. Derham Astro-theol. iv. ii. 69 The wonderfulness of the things of the Heavens or the Earth.
1870 F. M. Müller Sci. Relig. (1873) 27 The Buddhist..miracles, which in wonderfulness certainly surpass the miracles of any other religion.
1892 W. E. Henley London Voluntaries in Song of Sword i. 39 Dispossessed of wonderfulness, they stand Beggared and common.
1908 Athenæum 22 Aug. 205/1 A knowledge of the wonderfulness of life.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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