surprisedness

noun

surprisedness

noun

Etymology From surprised + -ness.

1

The state or quality of being surprised.

When you have been waited on by armless hands, and have had a short conversation with a cat, nothing can surprise you much. All your surprisedness seems to be used up.1907, Edith Nesbit, The White Cat:

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