inexpectedness

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

inexpected +‎ -ness

Noun[edit]

inexpectedness (uncountable)

  1. Obsolete form of unexpectedness.
    • 1881, William Theodore Hickman, From poverty to wealth, volume 3, page 66:
      Gentle and calm as was her nature, she was one, whom, such awful news, resulting in so great a transformation in her husband's welfare, and falling with all the force of suddenness and inexpectedness, could not but deeply move.
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