Usualness

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Usual \U"su*al\, a. [L. usualis, from usus use: cf. F. usuel.
     See {Use}, n.]
     Such as is in common use; such as occurs in ordinary
     practice, or in the ordinary course of events; customary;
     ordinary; habitual; common.
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           Consultation with oracles was a thing very usual and
           frequent in their times.                 --Hooker.
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           We can make friends of these usual enemies. --Baxter.
     [1913 Webster] -- {U"su*al*ly}, adv. -- {U"su*al*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  usualness
       n : commonness by virtue of not being unusual [ant: {unusualness}]