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

He said he had been roused by a sound, whose power of disturbing him arose, not from its loudness, but from its uncommonness.

From Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker by Brown, Charles Brockden

"What's the uncommonness?" said Mrs. Thorn, addressing herself rather to Mr. Rossitur as she saw Mr. Carleton's averted eye;—"Is she handsome, Mr. Rossitur?"

From Queechy by Warner, Susan