EXTRAORDINARINESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The quality of being extraordinary and not commonly encountered

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

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

surprisingness; unexpectedness (extraordinariness by virtue of being unexpected)

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

uncommonness (extraordinariness as a consequence of being marked by an uncommon or superlative quality)

Antonym:

ordinariness (the quality of being commonplace and ordinary)

Derivation:

extraordinary (far more than usual or expected)

extraordinary (beyond what is ordinary or usual; highly unusual or exceptional or remarkable)