surprising
adjective
causing surprise, wonder, or astonishment.
surprisingness
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a word derived from
surprising.
Example Sentences
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"Very little censoring went on in his head, but his best stories have the flowing ease and surprisingness of poems."
From Time Magazine Archive
A work is imaginative in virtue of the power of its images over our emotions; not in virtue of any rarity or surprisingness in the images themselves.
From The Principles of Success in Literature by George Henry Lewes
It seemed part of the extraordinary, the perennial surprisingness of Sir Isaac that he should end in this way.
From The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
She had added that touch to soften the crude surprisingness of her announcement.
From The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West
