inexpectedness
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From inexpected + -ness.
Noun
[edit]inexpectedness (uncountable)
- 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.