unusualness

CEFRB2

/əˈnjuˌʒuəlnəs/

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Unusualness is the quality or state of being strange or uncommon.
`Was it a housekeeper?' He was the rouseabout, wearing his best clothes with awful unusualness.
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.

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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 19...

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