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OUTLANDISHNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does outlandishness mean? 

OUTLANDISHNESS (noun)
  The noun OUTLANDISHNESS has 1 sense:

1. strikingly out of the ordinaryplay

  Familiarity information: OUTLANDISHNESS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


OUTLANDISHNESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Strikingly out of the ordinary

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

bizarreness; outlandishness; weirdness

Hypernyms ("outlandishness" is a kind of...):

strangeness; unfamiliarity (unusualness as a consequence of not being well known)

Derivation:

outlandish (conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual)


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