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interestingness

interestingness noun: the state or quality of being interesting.

Noun

interestingness (usually uncountable, plural interestingnesses)

  1. (usually) The state or quality of being interesting.
    • The interestingness or real life relevance of anomalies is a key feature of anomaly detection.2009, Chandola, V.; Banerjee, A.; and Kumar, V., "Anomaly detection: A survey", ACM Computing Surveys, vol. 41, no. 3, Article 15 (July 2009), 58 pages. DOI = 10.1145/1541880.1541882
    • Today, popularity is typically a multialgorithmic measure. At Flickr, a photo's interestingness derives from views, comments, notes, bookmarks, favorites...2010, Peter Morville, Jeffery Callender, Search Patterns: Design for Discovery

Forms of interestingness

pluralinterestingnesses

Origin of interestingness

From interesting + -ness.

Questions about interestingness

What does interestingness mean?
Interestingness means the state or quality of being interesting.
What part of speech is interestingness?
Interestingness is a noun.
What is the plural of interestingness?
The plural of interestingness is interestingnesses.

Words near interestingness in the dictionary

  1. interesting number paradox
  2. interesting situation
  3. interesting situations
  4. interestingish
  5. interestingly
  6. interestingness
  7. interestingnesses
  8. interestless
  9. interestlessly
  10. interestlessness
  11. interestrus

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