unusualness

English edit

From unusual +‎ -ness.

unusualness (countable and uncountable, plural unusualnesses)

(uncountable) The condition or state of being unusual.
Synonyms: abnormality, remarkableness, weirdness; see also Thesaurus:strangeness
- 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:
  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.
- 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:
  `Was it a housekeeper?' He was the rouseabout, wearing his best clothes with awful unusualness.
(countable) Something unusual; an aberration.
Synonyms: deviance, oddity, outlier; see also Thesaurus:anomaly

state of being unusual