[f. UNCOMMON a.] The quality or state of being uncommon; unusualness.
1705. Addison, Italy, 225. Our admiration of ’em does not so much arise out of their Greatness as Uncommonness.
1730. Gay, Lett. to Swift, 6 Dec. For the uncommonness of the thing, I fansy, your curiosity will prevail over your fear.
1830. Carlyle, Misc. (1840), II. 365. Some features of originality, as well as of uncommonness.
1882. Pall Mall G., 8 April. This … presents the common with due uncommonness and suggestiveness.
