otherworldliness.

1. A quality that seems to belong outside ordinary life, as if supernatural or dreamlike.

2. A dreamy or detached state in which ordinary practical concerns seem distant.

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Words that belong together

• otherworldliness of the landscape
• eerie otherworldliness

On the page

The pale light gave the salt flats an otherworldliness she could not photograph.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary / elevated general. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: atmosphere, character, description. Commonness: moderately common.