unusualness

Noun

unusualness (countable and uncountable, plural unusualnesses)

1. (uncountable) The condition or state of being unusual.
   • The pale, inscrutable determinateness, and flinchless intrepidity of Pierre, now began to domineer upon them; for any social unusualness or greatness is sometimes most impressive in the retrospect.1852 July, Herman Melville, “Book XXIV. Lucy at the Apostles’.”, in Pierre: Or, The Ambiguities, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, section IV, page 445
   • `Was it a housekeeper?' He was the rouseabout, wearing his best clothes with awful unusualness.1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 48

   Synonyms:

   abnormality, remarkableness, weirdness, abnormalcy, abnormalism, abnormity, anomalousness, atypicality, crotchet, deviancy

2. (countable) Something unusual; an aberration.

   Synonyms:

   deviance, oddity, outlier, aberrant, abnormality, anomaly, deviant, farlie, freak, irregularity