thrillingness

(ˈθrɪlɪŋnəs)

the state or quality of being thrilling or exciting

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But as thrilling as it was, and as thrilling as Nessun Dorma was, neither can match for undiluted thrillingness the sequence that followed the continuity announcement: "And now it's time to join Harry Carpenter for Sportsnight."

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"'Martern aller Arten,'" according to the Telegraph, "combined the dramatic and coloratura elements of her voice with a skill and thrillingness the like of which have not been heard in London for a long time." The audience gave her "the kind of ovation which is only reserved for the few."

Turning tortures into triumphs: in a new biographical study, author James Neufeld recounts soprano Lois Marshall's operatic encounters with conductor Sir Thomas Beecham

Its likelihood is almost tautologously in inverse proportion to its thrillingness. And so it would seem that there can be nothing in thought that is both true and thrilling.

I think it's really in Kant, though, that the thrillingness of the argument becomes thematized as part of the argument itself.

The thrillingness of the discovery of the borders of reason and of its own restlessness is part of that discovery.