suddenliness
nounEtymology From suddenly + -ness.
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Humorous, Nonstandard The state, quality, or condition of being sudden; suddenness; urgency.
- Finally, fatigue captured my thoughts and I fell asleep. With an awful suddenliness I awakened!1962, Doug Allan, Facing Danger in the Last Wilderness, page 99:
- The word "suddenly" is important. It may be difficult for a man to understand, but I fear his "suddenliness."1990, Riki Robbins Jones, The Empowered Woman:
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- The plane might come into Foynes - if she came in early - I remember one morning in particular, a plane came in with a kind of suddenliness.2009, Transcript of 'Transatlantic: the Flying Boats of Foynes':