uncommonness

The uncommonness of the situation is not lost on either man.

His voice rose in pitch with the uncommonness of the sighting.

Each letter is assigned a certain score depending on its uncommonness in the possible words.

John inquired into the uncommonness of common things.

Quick Responses is a word-association test scored for uncommonness.

The uncommonness of the name had enabled The Shadow to choose the logical destination.

Well, just what is the mystery, the uncommonness of the Sheldrake, Buford?

The text, however, notes the uncommonness of this division and says it was generally understood as 4 acres regardless of status.

Overall, caring for skunks is more complicated and challenging than raising other pets due to their relative uncommonness.

Evidently, potential buyers are undaunted by the uncommonness of this common stock offering, as if they were getting a crack at new Amazon.com stock.

Christians commentators talk without a blush about the second temple, and never seem to wonder about the peculiarity of its uncommonness in the text.

The Extra Awfulness It is perhaps the uncommonness of this crime in Britain that made for such strong revulsion.

However, given a relative uncommonness of bolt-in necks in electric guitars, most luthiers call both neck joints "bolt-on".

Unfortunately the uncommonness of CAIS and the small numbers of women who have not had testes removed make cancer risk difficult to quantify.

The spatial uncommonness of natural perches and man-made perches hindered the lizard's ability to correlate perches with a low quality habitat.

And yet the uncommonness of such a man casts a long shadow over the faith in eventual justice or eventual peace, because the figure is so lonely against the ground.

Cropley et al (1997: 204) describe these personal characteristics as "uncommonness" and "...qualities such as surprisingness, unexpectedness, seeing combinations, going beyond the immediate concrete facts, risking something new".

Figure Concepts, where participants were given simple drawings of objects and individuals and asked to find qualities or features that are common by two or more drawings; these were scored for uncommonness.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has assessed this species as Vulnerable due to its uncommonness, low reproductive rate, and susceptibility to shark fishing gear.

The wedding, at St. Martin-in-the-Fields in London, was abuzz with publicity, and thousands of people, drawn both by the uncommonness of the spectacle and the disarming good nature of the pair, tried to attend.

The significance of his concept of the sublime is that the three pleasures of the imagination he identified (greatness, uncommonness, and beauty) "arise from visible objects" (that is, from sight rather than from rhetoric).

In the course of these conversations, you realize anew what a sensitive ear Mr. LaBute has for the uncommonness in common speech — of the individuality within everyday language — and for how people of all levels of education and eloquence use words as instruments of power.

Because of the limited mortality suffered by this species from various human activities, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has assessed this species as of Least Concern, albeit also recommending that it be carefully monitored given its restricted distribution and overall uncommonness.

In fact, two of the names found in the tomb are unique among known ossuaries, and Jacobovici's argument does not in any case rely on the commonness or uncommonness of individual names, but on the statistical probability of finding a set of names in a single tomb.