UNUSUALNESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Uncommonness by virtue of being unusual

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

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

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

strangeness; unfamiliarity (unusualness as a consequence of not being well known)

Antonym:

usualness (commonness by virtue of not being unusual)

Derivation:

unusual (not commonly encountered)

unusual (not usual or common or ordinary)

unusual (being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird)