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Definition of Eeriness
1. Noun. Strangeness by virtue of being mysterious and inspiring fear.
Generic synonyms: Strangeness, Unfamiliarity
Derivative terms: Eery, Ghostly
Definition of Eeriness
1. Noun. The condition of being eerie ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Eeriness
1. the state of being eerie [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eeriness
Literary usage of Eeriness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan: An Account of Travels in the Interior Including by Isabella Lucy Bird (1888)
"... —The Steam Ferry—Coolies Abscond—A Team of Savages—A Drove of Horses—Floral
Beauties—An Unbeaten Track—A Ghostly Dwelling— Solitude and eeriness. ..."
2. The Theory of Practice: An Ethical Enquiry, in Two Books by Shadworth Hollway Hodgson (1870)
"There is perhaps no better name for this feeling than eeriness. It would seem
that animals are not exempt from it ; that children suffer most from it ..."
3. From Damascus to Palmyra by John Kelman (1908)
"... mountains, the very stones of the ground itself—which adds to the eeriness of
being alone the greater eeriness of probably being not alone. ..."
4. Wild Life in Hampshire Highlands by George Albemarle Bertie Dewar (1899)
"The night side of Nature in the deep wood has, too, a certain eeriness, such as
the wild-fowler on the moonlit marsh will often be conscious of: an eeriness ..."
5. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1914)
"The concluding portion of The Witch of Fife in The Queen's Wake is a quaintly
unique specimen of fantastic eeriness, ..."
6. Poetry by Modern Poetry Association (1915)
"wind blowing, and most of them carry a suggestion of the eeriness of common
things, as in The Lodging House: And when at last I stand outside My garret door ..."
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