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UNUSUALNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Uncommonness by virtue of being unusual
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("unusualness" is a kind of...):
uncommonness (extraordinariness as a consequence of being rare and seldom encountered)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "unusualness"):
strangeness; unfamiliarity (unusualness as a consequence of not being well known)
Antonym:
usualness (commonness by virtue of not being unusual)
Derivation:
unusual (not commonly encountered)
unusual (not usual or common or ordinary)
unusual (being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird)
