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Unnaturalness

Definition: Unnaturalness

Unnaturalness

Noun

1. The quality of being unnatural or not based on natural principles.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "unnaturalness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1605. (references)


Antonym: naturalness (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Unnaturalness

English words defined with "unnaturalness": grotesqueness, grotesquerie, grotesquery. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Unnaturalness

"Unnaturalness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unnaturalness" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%6143,867

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Unnaturalness

Language Translations for "unnaturalness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Finnish

  

luonnottomuus (abnormality). (various references)

   

German

  

Unnatürlichkeit (abnormality, artificiality, morbidity, pretense). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aturalnessunnay

   

Russian 

  

неестественность (theatricality). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

tính gượng gạo sự thiếu tình cảm thông thường tính ghê tởm, tính chất trái với thiên nhiên tính giả tạo. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Unnaturalness

Derivations

Words beginning with "unnaturalness": unnaturalnesses. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Unnaturalness

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-l-n-n-n-r-s-s-t-u-u"

-2 letters: naturalness.

-3 letters: antennular.

-4 letters: annuluses, assaulter, australes, nauseants, saleratus, unnatural.

-5 letters: anestrus, annulate, annulets, antennal, antennas, arsenals, asternal, australs, ensnarls, lanterns, naturals, nauseant, neurulas, neutrals, salterns, saluters, saunters, sealants, stunners, sultanas, trunnels, unlearns, unlearnt, unsnarls.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-e-l-n-n-n-r-s-s-t-u-u"
 

+2 letters: unnaturalnesses.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Unnaturalness


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

55 6E 6E 61 74 75 72 61 6C 6E 65 73 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-    -.    -.    .-    -    ..-    .-.    .-    .-..    -.    .    ...    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010101 01101110 01101110 01100001 01110100 01110101 01110010 01100001 01101100 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 006E 0061 0074 0075 0072 0061 006C 006E 0065 0073 0073

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

55808067868784677880718585

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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