surprisal

They also used a computational technique to quantify each sentence's "surprisal," or how uncommon it is compared to other sentences.

The outages were part of an apparent protest by users after the surprisal removal of a popular employee, Victoria Taylor, Reddit’s director of talent and a facilitator of the Ask Me Anything feature.

And, by reason of that sudden surprisal, we, knowing ourselves innocent of the crime, were all exceedingly astonished and amazed, and consternated and affrighted even out of our reason.

As Wilde left it, it was the latter part of a play in one act in blank verse, beginning with the surprisal of the lovers by the husband.

For their expedition to rob our gardens, they had brought their sovereign’s sole heir along with them, as they never leave any of the royal family behind them, for fear of a surprisal.