Unusualness

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The condition or state of being unusual. uncountable

    "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."

  2. 2
    uncommonness by virtue of being unusual wordnet
  3. 3
    Something unusual; an aberration. countable

Synonyms

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abnormalityirregularityoddityqueernessstrangenessweirdness

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"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."

Etymology

From unusual + -ness.

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