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Unusualness

noun
1.
Uncommonness by virtue of being unusual.





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"Unusualness" Quotes from Famous Books



... tone proved startling to her by virtue of its unusualness. What might it portend, she wondered, and sought with grave eyes to read his baffling countenance; and then a wild alarm swept into her and shook her spirit in its grip; there was something of which until this moment ...
— Mistress Wilding • Rafael Sabatini
... as will be seen if I have in any way succeeded in reproducing the manner of his conversation, was sardonic. His repartee was rude. He made one laugh sometimes by speaking the truth, but this is a form of humour which gains its force only by its unusualness; it would cease to amuse ...
— The Moon and Sixpence • W. Somerset Maugham
... hands of an ordinary Frenchwoman would never have remained on deposit for that length of time untouched, but, if not needed, would have been promptly invested in rentes. The unusualness of this fact, however, had not disturbed the bankers and had, in fact, been of so little importance that they had failed to notice it at all. When, therefore, a young woman dressed in a nurse's uniform appeared at the ...
— Louisiana Lou • William West Winter


Words linked to "Unusualness" :   strangeness, usualness, unfamiliarity, unusual, uncommonness


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