Unsurprise

noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. 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."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From un- + surprise.

Etymology 2

From un- + surprise.

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