uncommonness

To the contrary, it is the uncommonness of such mobilization that draws attention and makes the mobilization effective.

American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

I can really make sense of your ungrammaticality judgment only as an aversion against the constructions excessive uncommonness (use of “whom” + overt relative pronoun in an object relative clause, which also seems to have become sort of uncommon) … Are “the boy to whom I gave the gift” and “the man whom I saw” really that much better for you?

Whoever v. Whomever! Cases collide! Match of the Century! « Motivated Grammar 2009

But I am not common, and by cleaving to me and my leadership you bask in the glory of my uncommonness.

The Lives of Felix Gunderson Sugu Althomsons 2010

Later, when he left the company to launch his company, the mystique of his name followed (in part due to its uncommonness).

Game Designers Gain Notoriety By jamin brophy-warren 2009

The rate and amplitude of the current warming testify about its uncommonness during the past centuries Briffa et al.

Juckes and the Indigirka River Alter Ego « Climate Audit 2006

Talk about her growing appreciation of the uncommonness of common things.

Broken For You by Stephanie Kallos: Questions 2004

It's in acquiring this "uncommon visage" that the meaning of human existence seems to lie, since for this uncommonness we are, as it were, prepared genetically.

Joseph Brodsky - Nobel Lecture 1987

Hotspur is an uncommon man, whose uncommonness is unsupported by his father at a critical moment.

William Shakespeare John Masefield 1922

I might give you a dozen pictures of our life, and yet mislead you as to its uncommonness; it was really commonplace life in strange and unfamiliar circumstances.

The Relief of Mafeking How it Was Accomplished by Mahon's Flying Column; with an Account of Some Earlier Episodes in the Boer War of 1899-1900 Filson Young 1907

I do not wonder that he discerned the uncommonness of the Christ.

Brooks by the Traveller's Way 1864-1923 1902