unusualness

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noun

The condition or state of being unusual.

Opposite
Scrabble 11

Meanings

noununusualness (countable and uncountable, plural unusualnesses)

plural unusualnesses

  1. 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 48
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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.

    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 445

    Synonyms: abnormality, remarkableness, weirdness, abnormalcy, abnormalism, abnormality, abnormity, anomalousness

  2. countableSomething unusual; an aberration.

    Synonyms: deviance, oddity, outlier, aberrant, abnormality, anomaly, deviance, deviant

Synonyms & antonyms

More synonyms by meaning

noununcommonness by virtue of being unusual

Opposite

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

Translations

Latvian neparastība, neparastums
  • neparastībastate of being unusual
  • neparastumsstate of being unusual
Polish niezwykłość
  • niezwykłośćstate of being unusual
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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unusualness,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unusualness.

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