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• n  the quality of being extraordinary and not commonly encountered

• The story of Sonia Gandhi, 61, is remarkable at every level, and the fairy-tale metaphor barely begins to scratch the surface of its extraordinariness.
• We women have never really rejoiced about the elegance, the subtleties and the extraordinariness of our being.
• The paradox of this great country is that because these individuals are 'black' much of what is called 'white America' fails to recognize the extraordinariness of these lives.

• ordinariness

Quotes

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• Ang Lee in AsiaOne
  What's so wonderful about Chen's achievement is not its extraordinariness but that it is so simple and matter-of-fact in its generosity,award-winning Taiwanese director Ang Lee wrote for Time.