unusualness en · NOUN
Etymology
From unusual + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The condition or state of being unusual.
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:`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:
- (countable) Something unusual; an aberration.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| unusualnesses | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Synonyms
abnormality · freak · remarkableness · abnormalcy · queerness · queerhood · odd fish · oddity · crotchet · enormity · weirdness · abnormality · unusualness · eccentricity · extraordinariness · unusualness · rarity · nonnormality · oddity · irregularity · deviance · deviancy · anomalousness · peculiarness · abnormalism · irregularity · atypicality · aberrant · strange fish · weirdness · peculiarity · deviant · freakishness · anomaly · oddness · queerness · abnormity · quirk · abnormality · outlier · rum · strangeness · weirdness · unusuality · oddity · strangeness · deviance · outlier · quirkiness · farlie · rumness
Translations (3)
lv neparastums (state of being unusual) · pl niezwykłość (state of being unusual) · lv neparastība (state of being unusual)