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EXTRAORDINARINESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being extraordinary and not commonly encountered
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("extraordinariness" is a kind of...):
quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "extraordinariness"):
surprisingness; unexpectedness (extraordinariness by virtue of being unexpected)
uncommonness (extraordinariness as a consequence of being rare and seldom encountered)
uncommonness (extraordinariness as a consequence of being marked by an uncommon or superlative quality)
Antonym:
ordinariness (the quality of being commonplace and ordinary)
Derivation:
extraordinary (far more than usual or expected)
extraordinary (beyond what is ordinary or usual; highly unusual or exceptional or remarkable)
