Unsurprise
noun, verb
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Absence of surprise. countable, uncountable
"And there, in the shadows of the hallway, was my mother, looking up, unsurprised, in this house of unsurprises."
Verb
- 1 To not surprise: to reverse the surprise of, or fail to surprise. rare
"To summarize, theories about learning from failure depict a rather straightforward process: The surprise of failure is followed by a systematic assessment to “unsurprise the past.” Once the part, or otherwise malfunctioning component, has been identified, learning from failure is a question of figuring out new, more functional cause-effect relationships."
Example
More examples"And there, in the shadows of the hallway, was my mother, looking up, unsurprised, in this house of unsurprises."
Etymology
From un- + surprise.
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