Definition of "surprisingness" [surprisingness]

• The condition of being surprising (noun)

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• "Yet apart from talking about the surprisingness or not of their community, celebrating the illustrative likenesses and un-likenesses of its members, its differences in relationship, there is little else we can say about this connection."
• "In a narrative that alternates between the characters 'viewpoints — twelve-year-old Astrid, a kind of junior Lydia Davis, is a particularly wonderful voice — Smith maintains a playful, poetic idiom of startling and clarifying emotional power, so that the prose, in its logical beauty and its surprisingness, serves as an analogue of the enchantment dispensed by Amber."
• "She had added that touch to soften the crude surprisingness of her announcement."