The unexpectedness of the warm welcome.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

A happening stuns us in ratio to its unexpectedness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mission of Janice Day] Reference

The tribute was potent from its very unexpectedness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference

The unexpectedness of its passion startled them all.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tiger in the Smoke]

The unexpectedness of each scene is what strikes first.    From Wordnik.com.  [Impressionist Gardens; Another World: Dalí, Magritte, Miró and the Surrealists] Reference

The smallest manifestation of unexpectedness disturbed him.    From Wordnik.com.  [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920] Reference

He was a little bewildered by the unexpectedness of the thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Genius] Reference

The sheer unexpectedness of it made my hair stir under my cap.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heart of Darkness] Reference

Perhaps it was its unexpectedness, or finding it in such a way.    From Wordnik.com.  [White Ashes] Reference

For a little, he seemed dazed by the unexpectedness of this evil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference

There was no end, she thought, to the unexpectedness of Katharine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Night and Day, by Virginia Woolf] Reference

His unexpectedness took the form not of benevolence but of culture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 7th, 1920] Reference

It's just their unexpectedness that just grasps you and grasps them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Librarian Nancy Pearl's 2009 Under-The-Radar Books] Reference

I have explained the mystery of the surprise and the unexpectedness.    From Wordnik.com.  [INAUGURATION OF THE VICTORIA DE JULIO SUGAR MILL] Reference

It was the very unexpectedness of the event that had been so unusual.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planet of the Damned] Reference

They almost dropped their handbags at the unexpectedness of the meeting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Baseball Joe Around the World Pitching on a Grand Tour] Reference

Rapidly, drastically, and with his usual unexpectedness he began to act.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lloyd George The Man and His Story] Reference

She frowned at him, the sheer unexpectedness of it sidetracking her anger.    From Wordnik.com.  [Angelmass]

The words startled him more because of their tone than their unexpectedness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red-Robin] Reference

She got three steps before Chandris shook off the sheer unexpectedness of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Angelmass]

Lloyd George's unexpectedness comes from the fact that he is a many-sided man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lloyd George The Man and His Story] Reference

Something, perhaps it was the unexpectedness of it, made her a trifle stately.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pleasant Street Partnership A Neighborhood Story] Reference

It had for the men in the C. & S.C. train the additional force of unexpectedness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Short Line War] Reference

It involved memories buried in enormous time, distance, change, and unexpectedness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Planet Strappers] Reference

The unexpectedness of his own abrupt question startled Silas as much as it did Tilly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Christmas Bride]

A little dazed by the blow, and by the unexpectedness of the onslaught -- nothing more.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference

The fusilade was fearfully severe and what added to its severity was its unexpectedness.    From Wordnik.com.  [With Methuen's Column on an Ambulance Train] Reference

What makes an event newsworthy is, in part, its unexpectedness or departure from the ordinary.    From Wordnik.com.  [90-6] Reference

"By Jove, that's it!" exclaimed the major, taken aback by the swift unexpectedness of the recovery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference

He was going to say something to her, something about the unexpectedness of seeing Ellice here, but.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Imaginary Marriage] Reference

The players try to evade the vigilance of the guards by the quickness and unexpectedness of their movements.    From Wordnik.com.  [Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium] Reference

And I must say there was a novelty, an unexpectedness, an ingenuity, in his badness that constantly astonished me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867] Reference

'Twas only a whisper from a rock nearby? but the boy almost screamed aloud in his fright at the unexpectedness of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tabitha's Vacation] Reference

"Why, I don't know as there is much to tell," he replied, a little nonplussed by the unexpectedness of the implied question.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands] Reference

She looked at him steadily, though her heart was beating rapidly, for this moment had come upon her with sudden unexpectedness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference