other-worldliness

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other-worldliness (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of otherworldliness.
    • 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →ISBN, page 221:
      Anthroposophy was having definite effects. I couldn’t take any of this to heart. Other-worldliness tinged it all and every little while my spirit seemed to disassociate itself.
    • 1966, Lewis Thorpe, “[Introduction] The Work Itself”, in The History of the Kings of Britain, Penguin Books, published 1968, page 22:
      The truth is that Geoffrey’s Arthur differs from Belinus and the other characters in the Historia by the air of other-worldliness and mystery attached to his person from before his birth; []
    • 2001, Alan Tate, “Parc des Buttes-Chaumont, Paris”, in Great City Parks, London, New York, N.Y.: Spon Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 54, columns 1–2:
      The remarkable feature of the woody planting at Buttes-Chaumont is the ‘profuse use’ of silver-leafed cedars, yellow-leafed robinias and copper-leafed beech trees. Sickly or not, they certainly combine with the extraordinarily steep lawns to contribute to the theatrical ‘other-worldliness’ of the park – nineteenth-century virtual reality.