bizarrerie

English

Etymology

From French bizarrerie.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /bɪˈzɑːɹəɹi/

Noun

bizarrerie (plural bizarreries)

1. The state or measure of being bizarre.
   • 1841, Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue:

     It was a freak of fancy in my friend (for what else shall I call it?) to be enamored of the Night for her own sake; and into this bizarrerie, as into all his others, I quietly fell; giving myself up to his wild whims with a perfect abandon.

2. A bizarre thing.
   • 1928, H. P. Lovecraft and Adolphe de Castro, The Last Test:

     Being of independent and even of abundant means, the Clarendons had for many years stuck to their old Manhattan mansion in East Nineteenth Street, whose ghosts must have looked sorely askance at the bizarrerie of Surama and the Thibetans.

French

Noun

bizarrerie f (plural bizarreries)

1. bizarreness
2. bizarrerie; something which is bizarre

Middle French

Noun

bizarrerie f (plural bizarreries)

1. bizarreness
2. bizarrerie; something which is bizarre