unsurprise

Etymology

From un- + surprise.

unsurprise means absence of surprise. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 72 out of 100.

noun

Absence of surprise.“And there, in the shadows of the hallway, was my mother, looking up, unsurprised, in this house of unsurprises.”

verb

To not surprise: to reverse the surprise of, or fail to surprise.“To summarize, theories about learning from failure depict a rather straightforward process: The surprise of failure is followed by a systematic assessment to “unsurprise the past.” Once the part, or otherwise malfunctioning component, has been identified, learning from failure is a question of figuring out new, more functional cause-effect relationships.”