bizarrerie

/ bɪˈzɑːrərɪ /

noun

1. the quality of being bizarre
2. a bizarre act

Example Sentences

The intellectual historian Sander Gilman, in an essay titled “Strauss, the Pervert, and Avant Garde Opera of the Fin de Siècle,” argued that the sexual bizarrerie of “Salome” is designed to conjure an unflattering picture of a degenerate society.

From The New Yorker

The music was loud and joyous in the extreme, sung, beaten upon drums, and played upon simple lutes and chitarrones; the dancing, though marked with great bizarrerie in its movements, was intoxicating in its strangeness and exhilarating in its exultation; and, despite what I had been told at the College of Lucidity of the dancing of slaves, it was executed with complete propriety: There was no intermingling of the sexes, but each maintained its separate steps and songs.

From Literature

My heart, though, stays untouched by the strenuous bizarrerie of Ms. Tharp’s style.

From New York Times

Originally titled “Night Shadow” in 1946, this is a Romantic drama tinged by Gothic horror and bizarrerie.

From New York Times

He was attacked as a dilettante, one whose music wavered between bombast and bizarrerie, whose poetic productions mixed platitude and gibberish.

From The New Yorker