unusual
adjective
not usual, common, or ordinary; uncommon in amount or degree; exceptional.
unusualness
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a word derived from
unusual.
Example Sentences
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“The unusualness of everything worked so much for the benefit of the film,” Orloff says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 1, 2025
A woman conductor leading a brand-new work by a woman composer is still noteworthy and surprising for its unusualness — a rarer event than it ought to be.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 2021
We can begin now by using the standard deviation as a measure of "unusualness."
From Textbooks ● Nov. 29, 2017
But it’s worth keeping in mind the unusualness of the situation facing Republicans.
From Slate ● Jul. 25, 2017
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.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
