EXTRAORDINARINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does extraordinariness mean? 

• EXTRAORDINARINESS (noun)
  The noun EXTRAORDINARINESS has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being extraordinary and not commonly encountered

  Familiarity information: EXTRAORDINARINESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXTRAORDINARINESS (noun)

Sense 1

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)