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OUTLANDISHNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does outlandishness mean?
• OUTLANDISHNESS (noun)
The noun OUTLANDISHNESS has 1 sense:
1. strikingly out of the ordinary
Familiarity information: OUTLANDISHNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Strikingly out of the ordinary
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
bizarreness; outlandishness; weirdness
Hypernyms ("outlandishness" is a kind of...):
strangeness; unfamiliarity (unusualness as a consequence of not being well known)
Derivation:
outlandish (conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual)
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