bewilderingness

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

bewildering +‎ -ness

Noun[edit]

bewilderingness (uncountable)

  1. Quality of being bewildering.
    • 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities:
      Then the bewilderingness of the old starings of the solitary old man and old woman, by the cracked hearth-stone of the desolate old house, in the desolate, round, open space []