oppositeness
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As they slowly built the igloo up on an ever-decreasing circumference, I watched with a sense of the anti-material oppositeness of the thing ...
From Time Magazine Archive
The fact of her being now his protector, by its oppositeness to the conventional situation, gave to their relation the charm of novelty, and also gratified her natural love of independence and domination.
From The Continental Dragoon A Love Story of Philipse Manor-House in 1778 by Robert Neilson Stephens
This will account for the oppositeness and parallelism of the statements in Matt. xxv.
From An Essay on the Scriptural Doctrine of Immortality by James Challis
Florence Moreland was the only other American in the school, and to her Marion was attracted by the very oppositeness of her nature.
From With Edge Tools by H. C. (Hobart Chatfield) Chatfield-Taylor
But it should be borne in mind that the oppositeness of their nature does not necessarily mean conflict.
From The Law and the Word by T. (Thomas) Troward
