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freakishness

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freak·ish  (frksh)
adj.
1. Markedly unusual or abnormal; strange: freakish weather; a freakish combination of styles.
2. Relating to or being a freak: a freakish extra toe.
3. Capricious or whimsical.
freakish·ly adv.
freakish·ness n.
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Noun1.freakishnessfreakishness - marked strangeness as a consequence of being abnormal
abnormality
strangeness, unfamiliarity - unusualness as a consequence of not being well known


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Whether moved only by her ordinary freakishness, or because an evil spirit prompted her, she put up her small forefinger and touched the scarlet letter.
The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
At tea, two or three hours earlier, they had, in the freakishness of affection, drunk from one cup.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context
Didn't the letter show the most engaging compound of enthusiasm and spirit and whimsicality, all tapering into a flame of girlish freakishness, which flitted, for the rest of the morning, as a will-o'-the-wisp, across Rodney's landscape.
Night and Day by Woolf, Virginia View in context
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