unlikeliness

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Its best feature is perhaps its unlikeliness: It has the oddness of a passion project, inexplicable in commercial terms — three-season deal notwithstanding — but something its makers just wanted to see.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 24, 2023

One of the dolphins there was found dead and the other - a calf - was euthanised due to its unlikeliness to survive.

From BBC • Mar. 22, 2023

The unlikeliness of this novel is exactly its magic.

From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2022

Instead, Tom Stoppard remains alive to the unlikeliness of Tom Stoppard’s career from the very beginning, when little Tomáš Sträussler escapes Czechoslovakia just ahead of the Nazis and becomes a happy English schoolboy.

From Slate • Feb. 23, 2021

The unlikeliness of Harris’s bombshell—she was a grandmother, no less, without PhD or academic affiliation—prompted both wonder and chagrin.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt