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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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
For “Tenet,” visuals had to tout an unusualness that was grounded in the real world.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2021
Later we will be trying to measure the "unusualness" of an observation or a sample mean and thus we need a measure from the mean.
From Textbooks ● Nov. 29, 2017
But it’s worth keeping in mind the unusualness of the situation facing Republicans.
From Slate ● Jul. 25, 2017
Perhaps it was the unusualness of my speaking with feeling that caused the tears to start in his eyes.
From The Plum Tree by E. M. Ashe
