The quality of not being representative of a type, group, or class.
‘we would stress the atypicality of the presentation’
‘The famous Capital Beltway, the very emblem of atypicality, lies about 50 feet from the terrible new parking garage.’
‘Bushy Beach (perhaps the name indicates its atypicality) just south of Oamaru springs to mind.’
‘As we learned in Intermediate Statistics with "small" samples regarding inferential test statistics, we do run some risk of "atypicality" due to the "small" sample size.’
‘The sexual subgroups also differed on a measure of gender atypicality in adulthood.’
‘Judges rated the atypicality of the prosody in samples of conversation from participants in each of the three groups.’
‘This study examined perceived behavioral atypicality as a predictor of children's school-based adjustment.’
‘His atypicality is mild, although he does show a pretty big disparity in his skills.’
‘Because increased atypicality is assumed to increase the variance of offers, increased atypicality raises the selling price.’
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