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  • noun The state or condition of being haunted.

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Examples

  • It's not his best performance by a long shot, but he nails the doomed, dour hauntedness at the heart of the original character, which Paul Naschy was always struggling to convey in his performances, too.

    Archive 2010-02-07 2010

  • It's not his best performance by a long shot, but he nails the doomed, dour hauntedness at the heart of the original character, which Paul Naschy was always struggling to convey in his performances, too.

    THE WOLFMAN 2010

  • That state of hauntedness is the state of ego, actually.

    Shambhala Sun - Beyond Present, Past, and Future Is The Fourth Moment, By Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche William Harryman 2009

  • The hauntedness and the sense of insight work together.

    Shambhala Sun - Beyond Present, Past, and Future Is The Fourth Moment, By Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche William Harryman 2009

  • But Ms. Britton sells Vivien's abandon and vulnerability, and she conjures a hauntedness that isn't necessarily in the script.

    NYT > Home Page By MIKE HALE 2011

  • Paul Theroux, you could say, has attitude, though this does not make him a philosopher, while Ryszard Kapuscinski found scenes so archetypal that they offered up parables and a W.G. Sebald wrote of nothing but a philosophical restlessness, a hauntedness that pricked him daily and drew blood.

    World Hum jim@worldhum.com 2010

  • Paul Theroux, you could say, has attitude, though this does not make him a philosopher, while Ryszard Kapuscinski found scenes so archetypal that they offered up parables and a W.G. Sebald wrote of nothing but a philosophical restlessness, a hauntedness that pricked him daily and drew blood.

    World Hum jim@worldhum.com 2010

  • The relative hauntedness of hospitals signals the quality of care given.

    The Morning News 2009

  • Bad news: It category of debunks the magicality / hauntedness of the sound by attachment it to the demesne of grouping controlling wise computers.

    Planet Malaysia 2009

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