unusualness

English

Etymology

From unusual + -ness.

Noun

unusualness (countable and uncountable, plural unusualnesses)

  1. (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.
  2. (countable) Something unusual; an aberration.
    Synonyms: deviance, oddity, outlier; see also Thesaurus:anomaly

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