bizarrerie

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
21
Words With Friends
22
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/bɪˈzɑːɹəɹi/ (UK)

Definition of bizarrerie

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)The state or measure of being bizarre.
    “It was a freak of fancy in my friend (for what else shall I call it?) to be enamored of the Night for her own sake; and into this bizarrerie, as into all his others, I quietly fell; giving myself up to his wild whims with an utter abandon.”
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noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)The state or measure of being bizarre.
    “It was a freak of fancy in my friend (for what else shall I call it?) to be enamored of the Night for her own sake; and into this bizarrerie, as into all his others, I quietly fell; giving myself up to his wild whims with an utter abandon.”
  2. (countable, uncountable)A bizarre thing.
    “Being of independent and even of abundant means, the Clarendons had for many years stuck to their old Manhattan mansion in East Nineteenth Street, whose ghosts must have looked sorely askance at the bizarrerie of Surama and the Thibetans.”
    “But even as I harboured these doubts I felt ashamed that so fantastic a piece of bizarrerie as Henry Akeley’s wild letter had brought them up.”

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Etymology

Borrowed from French bizarrerie.

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