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USUALNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does usualness mean?
• USUALNESS (noun)
The noun USUALNESS has 1 sense:
1. commonness by virtue of not being unusual
Familiarity information: USUALNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Commonness by virtue of not being unusual
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("usualness" is a kind of...):
commonness; commonplaceness; everydayness (ordinariness as a consequence of being frequent and commonplace)
Attribute:
usual (occurring or encountered or experienced or observed frequently or in accordance with regular practice or procedure)
unusual (not usual or common or ordinary)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "usualness"):
familiarity (usualness by virtue of being familiar or well known)
Antonym:
unusualness (uncommonness by virtue of being unusual)
Derivation:
usual (occurring or encountered or experienced or observed frequently or in accordance with regular practice or procedure)
usual (commonly encountered)
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