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the quality of being highly unusual or remarkable
The extraordinariness of the discovery stunned the scientists.
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· the quality of being highly...
remarkablenessexceptionalitysingularityuniquenessphenomenality
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From extraordinary + -ness. Extraordinary derives from Latin extraordinarius ('out of the ordinary'), from extra ordinem ('outside the normal order'), from extra ('outside') + ordo ('order').
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