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Usualness

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.

Consultation with oracles was a thing very usual and frequent in their times.
--Hooker.

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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usualness

n. 1 The quality or state of being usual. 2 (cx countable English) Something that is usual.

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usualness

n. commonness by virtue of not being unusual [ant: unusualness]

Usage examples of "usualness".

He was aware of a sort of tingling itch all over his body, as though the heightened awareness of his earlier anticipation was with him, in a single sense only, once again, and every nerve in his skin was receiving a maximum intensity, pouring into his brain a mass of static, average signals, a bodily white noise giving an impression of unattenuated, unsifted, exaggerated usualness.