utterness


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utterness

(ˈʌtərnəs)
n
the quality or state of being utter, complete, or extreme
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Noun1.utterness - the quality of being complete or utter or extreme; "the starkness of his contrast between justice and fairness was open to many objections"
absoluteness, starkness
limit, bound, boundary - the greatest possible degree of something; "what he did was beyond the bounds of acceptable behavior"; "to the limit of his ability"
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Mahbub snapped his fingers to show the utterness of that end, and his eyes blazed like red coals.
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It matters little that the words do not relate to any precise event, provided that they preserve, for the phenomena allegedly being described, stark immediacy, and testify to the primacy of sensation and the utterness of the region's disorder.
'A reflection of a reflection': Notes on representational and ethical possibilities in Thomas Mofolo's Chaka
He loved Him with an utterness beyond what humans can experience for one another.
Poetry, the sleeping king, and creative doubt

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