Meanings
plural unusualnesses
- uncountableThe condition or state of being unusual.
`Was it a housekeeper?' He was the rouseabout, wearing his best clothes with awful unusualness.
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 481 more example
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.
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 445Synonyms: abnormality, remarkableness, weirdness, abnormalcy, abnormalism, abnormality, abnormity, anomalousness
- countableSomething unusual; an aberration.
Synonyms: deviance, oddity, outlier, aberrant, abnormality, anomaly, deviance, deviant
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe condition or state of being unusual.
nounSomething unusual; an aberration.
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Origin
Translations
Latvian neparastība, neparastums
- neparastībastate of being unusual
- neparastumsstate of being unusual
Polish niezwykłość
- niezwykłośćstate of being unusual
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