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Unexpectedness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The state of being unexpected. uncountable

    "For one of the chief accounts, upon which Wit it self is delightful, is, in very many cases, the unexpectedness of the things that please us; that unexpectedness being the highest Degree of Novelty, which, as I freshly noted, does exceedingly gratifie most Men’s minds."

  2. 2
    extraordinariness by virtue of being unexpected wordnet

Etymology

From unexpected + -ness.

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