astoundingness

English

Etymology

astounding +‎ -ness

Noun

astoundingness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being astounding.
   • 1883, William Henry Bishop, chapter 2, in The House of a Merchant Prince‎^[1], Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, page 23:

     Klauser defended himself in but a jumbled way. He could plead only the comparative astoundingness of the fact that Rodman Harvey should have been found at his place of business at that hour.

   • 1909, Arnold Bennett, chapter 34, in The Glimpse: An Adventure of the Soul‎^[2], London: Chapman & Hall, page 277:

     The astoundingness of the episode had shaken him violently out of his groove.

   • 1938, Leonard Feeney, Elizabeth Seton: An American Woman, New York: America Press, “Emmitsburg,” p. 213,^[3]

     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.