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interestingness

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Etymology

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From interesting +‎ -ness.

Noun

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interestingness (usually uncountable, plural interestingnesses)

  1. The state or quality of being interesting.
    • 2009, Chandola, V.; Banerjee, A.; and Kumar, V., "Anomaly detection: A survey", ACM Computing Surveys, vol. 41, no. 3, Article 15 (July 2009), 58 pages. DOI = 10.1145/1541880.1541882
      The interestingness or real life relevance of anomalies is a key feature of anomaly detection.
    • 2010, Peter Morville, Jeffery Callender, Search Patterns: Design for Discovery:
      Today, popularity is typically a multialgorithmic measure. At Flickr, a photo's interestingness derives from views, comments, notes, bookmarks, favorites...

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