Unusualness Meaning
/əˈnjuˌʒuəlnəs/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounThe condition or state of being unusual.
nounSomething unusual; an aberration.
Sentence Examples
The unusualness of the situation made everyone feel quite uneasy.
Unusualness is the quality or state of being strange or uncommon.
The unusualness of the situation caught everyone by surprise.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The ____ of the modern painting attracted many curious viewers to the gallery.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The ____ of the event was what attracted so much media attention and brought many visitors to the small town today.
Word Origin & History
From unusual + -ness.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The ____ of the modern painting attracted many curious viewers to the gallery.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The ____ of the event was what attracted so much media attention and brought many visitors to the small town today.