Bain referred to this as the "doubleness" of concepts.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 4] Reference

A kind of doubleness and want of keeping to the whole.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brief History of English and American Literature] Reference

We have an illustration of this doubleness in the incident recorded here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Men of the Bible; Some Lesser-Known Characters] Reference

Identification demands a peculiar doubleness; it has something of the uncanny about it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reading Machines] Reference

Directors, I say to him at one point, seem to see a duplicity in him, a useful doubleness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vincent Kartheiser: 'I definitely do psychopathic. I don't try to, but it just sneaks out'] Reference

Like everything else in this disappointing book, the theme of doubleness ... exerts no force.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein: Summary and book reviews of The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein by Peter Ackroyd.] Reference

They are without any doubleness, and so they produce things in a manner that is unfathomable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The doctrine of the mean] Reference

Metaphor and simile are only the more obvious outriders of this inherent semantic doubleness, this parabolism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Panel 3: Clarity & Obscurity: The Uses and Misuses : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference

Carver writes about this man in the window as if he were someone else, imaging the doubleness of his own life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Raymond Carver] Reference

But they represent -- with Shakespearean doubleness -- radically opposed ways of talking about the writer they both revere.    From Wordnik.com.  [SHAKESPEARE 101: A+] Reference

Of course, an understanding not of the doubleness but the quadrupleness of our consciousnesses is the route to a healthier psyche.    From Wordnik.com.  [This unhappy consciousness] Reference

Just a dead rat but he could see it clearly, feeling a kind of doubleness, a shaped transparency, die-cut, that fit him to the moment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Underworld] Reference

Moreover, doubleness and doubling have only the relation to double that whiteness has to white; they cannot be classed as identical with it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Six Enneads.] Reference

Shakespeare combines maximum artifice -- try tracing the motif of seeing and blindness in "Lear," of doubleness in "Macbeth" -- maximum emotion and maximum mystery.    From Wordnik.com.  [BARD WATCH: A SHAKER AND MOVER] Reference

Bananas 'new beard had grown curly which was unforseen in view of the lank straight locks further up but seemed to me to be in accord with the doubleness of his nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twice shy]

Her abiding doubleness, above all, places a sense of history, tradition and the avant-garde next to an irreverent and whimsical sense of the absurdity of all human philosophies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Muriel Spark.] Reference

But now I became aware of a new doubleness of experience.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Thing from the Lake] Reference

So she was a Countess born, which accounted for the doubleness.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters] Reference

Just this doubleness is needed in the progressive economic life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Psychology and Social Sanity] Reference

It is this doubleness that Dreams conveys on its very first page.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chicago Blog] Reference

Shostakovich's doubleness, in her view, is entirely of his making.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spurious] Reference

And it was the doubleness of her nature that caused her indecision.    From Wordnik.com.  [Duffels] Reference

This doubleness may easily make us poor neighbors and friends sometimes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Walden] Reference

And I want, first of all, to make the nature of this doubleness clear to you.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Forces of Matter, Delivered before a Juvenile Auditory at the Royal Institution of Great Britain during the Christmas Holidays of 1859-60] Reference

Shattuck apparently believes that most important images have a similar doubleness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reading the Maps] Reference

It must be noted that doubleness of the flower may exist without noticeable sterility.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Foundations of the Origin of Species Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844] Reference

If you think well to carry this as you may, the doubleness of the benefit defends the deceit from reproof.    From Wordnik.com.  [Measure for Measure The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.]] Reference

If you think well to carry this, as you may, the doubleness of the benefit defends the deceit from reproof.    From Wordnik.com.  [Act III. Scene I. Measure for Measure] Reference

We all have learned to ignore it, but characteristic illusions remain which indicate the reality of this doubleness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Photoplay A Psychological Study] Reference

Both he and his world were so made as to convey a sense of doubleness, of high truth hinted in humble, nearby things.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Builders A Story and Study of Masonry] Reference

I should not be surprised if this story of the Fire worshippers were found capable of a similar doubleness of application.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes] Reference

His curious, analytic observation, his way of looking at the soul from outside, gives a doubleness to the monologues in his.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brief History of English and American Literature] Reference

Vendler calls the ability to acknowledge both in a poem "binocular vision," and considers the stylistic moves that allow for doubleness.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

It is this doubleness which gives this consciousness/unconscious quality to it. (quoted in Katherine Hayles, How We Became Posthuman, 71).    From Wordnik.com.  [Larval Subjects .] Reference