Strangening
noun, verb
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The act or process of making or becoming strange. no-plural, rare
"Of course this deliberate strangening was an artificial procedure, but based on the valid idea that it is the poem (or painting or building) that matters, so that you should make the most direct contact with it that you can, first as a physical object appealing to the senses, […]"
Verb
- 1 present participle of strangen form-of, participle, present
Example
More examples"Of course this deliberate strangening was an artificial procedure, but based on the valid idea that it is the poem (or painting or building) that matters, so that you should make the most direct contact with it that you can, first as a physical object appealing to the senses, […]"
Etymology
From strangen + -ing.
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