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Meaning of doubleness in English:

doubleness

Pronunciation /ˈdʌblnəs/

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noun

See double

‘The doubleness of these technologies-their potential for both documentary ‘truth’ and optical illusion-served to highlight the epistemological problems of realism.’
  • ‘In any case, the doubleness of human nature, the interior struggle, is acknowledged here and celebrated as an experience that lifts us above ourselves.’
  • ‘A feature of resistant language is often its doubleness: the ability to say one thing and signify another, or the ability to say two things at once.’
  • ‘Japan and the West share this temporal and psychic doubleness.’
  • ‘The focus here is on puns that reveal the doubleness of the poet's meaning or the double way we perceive it.’