uncommonness

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At the same time, the uncommonness of his big-picture analysis and the apparent difficulty of tracking down Cops’ more reluctant participants speak to their arduousness.

From Slate • May 24, 2019

What is telling is that his uncommonness is not marshaled on the show to help comedy’s commoners.

From New York Times • Apr. 14, 2014

The uncommonness of the proposal raised, at once, his surprise and curiosity; and when, after a short deliberation, he consented to admit her, he could not stay, without impatience, till the next day.

From Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes by Johnson, Samuel

It seems as reasonable to suppose that the infrequency with which these several factors coincide is responsible for the relative uncommonness of botulism as to suppose it due to the rarity of the specific bacillus.

From Food Poisoning by Jordan, Edwin Oakes

We might, indeed, multiply indefinitely our quotations from the correspondence of this literary period to show its sincerity, its spontaneity, its uncommonness, the tone of intimate brotherhood and natural unruly affection that pervades it everywhere.

From Studies in Literature and History by Miller, John O.