unsurprise
1
9.3
A calm feeling because you already knew something would happen
- noun
- /ˌʌnsərˈpraɪz/
:
falta de sorpresa
- The audience's unsurprise at the ending indicated they had predicted the twist from the beginning.
Examples
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"Sure," she said, in a tone of blandest unsurprise.
Fiction book (1999) -
She showed unsurprise at the news, as it was what she had expected all along.
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His reaction was one of unsurprise when he learned that the meeting was canceled again.
Synonyms
expectedness
vsunsurprise
1
5.6
How usual and not surprising something is
is the lack of surprise shown when something is expected
Antonyms
How Surprised
Surface Forms
unsurprise singular
unsurprises plural
Morphology
Etymology
Unsurprise is formed from the small part un- meaning 'not' and the word surprise, which means 'a sudden unexpected feeling'. So unsurprise is the state of 'not being surprised', the calm or expected reaction when something happens.