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SURPRISINGNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does surprisingness mean?
• SURPRISINGNESS (noun)
The noun SURPRISINGNESS has 1 sense:
1. extraordinariness by virtue of being unexpected
Familiarity information: SURPRISINGNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Extraordinariness by virtue of being unexpected
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
surprisingness; unexpectedness
Context example:
the unexpectedness of the warm welcome
Hypernyms ("surprisingness" is a kind of...):
extraordinariness (the quality of being extraordinary and not commonly encountered)
Derivation:
surprising (causing surprise or wonder or amazement)
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