"topsyturvydom" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1899, Literary News, volumes 20-21",
          "text": "But the young wife has not altogether an enviable position, for by one of those queer topsyturvydoms which occur in Japan, the mother-in-law—who, in the West, is so often the object of cheap satire—is a veritable terror in the Far East to the wife.",
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          "ref": "1902, William Butler Yeats, The Celtic Twilight",
          "text": "At last she saw a big river, and the man who had tried to keep her from being carried off was drifting down it — such are the topsyturvydoms of faery glamour — in a cockleshell.",
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          "ref": "1995, The Force of Vision: Dramas of desire; Visions of beauty",
          "text": "In traditions of both East and West, however, wanderlust for topsyturvydom seems to represent an alternative view of the nature of things, and it seems to embody a liberating escape from the status quo."
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          "ref": "2002, Paul Oppenheimer, Rubens: A Portrait",
          "text": "[...] that it would make an oblique reference to the topsyturvydom of his own life as a child in exile in Cologne, and to the appalling topsyturvydom especially of his father's life, that of the former Alderman of Antwerp, who had died there as an exile.",
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          "ref": "2014, Janko Lavrin, Tolstoy: An Approach bound with Dostoevsky: A Study",
          "text": "There was a topsy-turvydom of values, of trends and ideas—a continually changing stream which Dostoevsky began to explore, not only in its temporary aspects,but also sub specie aeternitatis.",
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          "text": "That has to be the best review George ever had. Not all critics grasped the nature of this new opera genre, somewhere between burlesque and satire, with a 'topsy-turvydom' so prominent in Gilbert's view of the world.",
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        },
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