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UNCOMMONNESS

Dictionary entry overview: What does uncommonness mean?

• UNCOMMONNESS (noun)
The noun UNCOMMONNESS has 2 senses:

1. extraordinariness as a consequence of being marked by an uncommon or superlative quality
2. extraordinariness as a consequence of being rare and seldom encountered

Familiarity information: UNCOMMONNESS used as a noun is rare.

Dictionary entry details

• UNCOMMONNESS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Extraordinariness as a consequence of being marked by an uncommon or superlative quality

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("uncommonness" is a kind of...):

extraordinariness (the quality of being extraordinary and not commonly encountered)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

Extraordinariness as a consequence of being rare and seldom encountered

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("uncommonness" is a kind of...):

extraordinariness (the quality of being extraordinary and not commonly encountered)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "uncommonness"):

unusualness (uncommonness by virtue of being unusual)

Antonym:

commonness (ordinariness as a consequence of being frequent and commonplace)

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