extraordinarinessn.
/ᵻkˈstrɔːd(ᵻ)n(ə)rɪnᵻs/, /ɛkˈstrɔːd(ᵻ)n(ə)rɪnᵻs/, /ˌɛkstrəˈɔːd(ᵻ)n(ə)rɪnᵻs/, U.S. /ɪkˈstrɔrdnˌɛrinᵻs/, /ɛkˈstrɔrdnˌɛrinᵻs/ a. The quality or fact of being extraordinary.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or extraordinary > [noun]
particularity1570
unusualness1579
egregiousness1606
remarkableness1623
extraordinarinessa1665
unusuality1799
remarkability1838
exceptionality1854
exceptionalness1886
a1665 K. Digby Jrnl. Voy. to Mediterranean (1868) 56 The extraordinarinesse of the action.
1675 R. Baxter Catholick Theol. ii. viii. 189 Wherein the extraordinariness of it consisteth..I think it past mans reach to know.
1703 W. Burkitt Expos. Notes New Test. Luke iii. 17 The extraordinariness of John the Baptists Person.
1881 Spectator 19 Feb. 247 Some vital point, which may result quite as easily from ordinariness..as from extraordinariness.
b. humorously as a title of address.
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1681 A. Behn 2nd Pt. Rover iii. 35 As for that matter, your Extraordinariness may do what you please.
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