unusualness
English
Noun
unusualness (countable and uncountable, plural unusualnesses)
- (uncountable) The condition or state of being unusual.
- Synonyms: abnormality, remarkableness, weirdness; see also Thesaurus:strangeness
- 1852 July, Herman Melville, “Book XXIV. Lucy at the Apostles’.”, in Pierre: Or, The Ambiguities, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, section IV, page 445:
- The pale, inscrutable determinateness, and flinchless intrepidity of Pierre, now began to domineer upon them; for any social unusualness or greatness is sometimes most impressive in the retrospect.
- 1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 48:
- `Was it a housekeeper?' He was the rouseabout, wearing his best clothes with awful unusualness.
- (countable) Something unusual; an aberration.
- Synonyms: deviance, oddity, outlier; see also Thesaurus:anomaly
Translations
state of being unusual
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