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- noun The state or condition of being
haunting .
Etymologies
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haunting + -ness
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Examples
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There was a familiar hauntingness in its strains that puzzled me until I associated them with the song that Burton used to whistle so often in the times when Leila was in Paris and he had turned for companionship to Dick and to me.
The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915
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