[f. WEIRD a. + -NESS.] The fact or quality of being weird.
1853. N. Y. Times, 4 June, 2/1. We are glad we knew by heart that yearning melody of Genevieve, and all the touching weirdness of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel, before we got any intimate glance at the tenor of the poet’s life.
1869. E. W. Benson, in A. C. Benson, Life (1899), I. 289. Then fell the weirdness that still comes betimes When, after earnest talk, I fall to talk For talking’s sake.
1893. T. P. O’Connor, in Harper’s Mag., Dec., 44/2. The greatness, vastness, and, if the word be permissible, weirdness of an empire that is the ruler of countless millions.
