noun
Meaning 1
The quality of being astounding.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Examples
- 1938, Leonard Feeney, Elizabeth Seton: An American Woman, New York: America Press, “Emmitsburg,” p. 213, In March a most astounding postulant arrived (for even among nuns there can be degrees of astoundingness), a young girl named Elizabeth Boyle, who, though of an Irish name, was of an English family and was a convert from Episcopalianism.
Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided