UNUSUALNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unusualness mean? 

• UNUSUALNESS (noun)
  The noun UNUSUALNESS has 1 sense:

1. uncommonness by virtue of being unusual

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNUSUALNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Uncommonness by virtue of being unusual

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

uncommonness (extraordinariness as a consequence of being rare and seldom encountered)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "unusualness"):

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

Antonym:

usualness (commonness by virtue of not being unusual)

Derivation:

unusual (not commonly encountered)

unusual (not usual or common or ordinary)

unusual (being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird)