STRANGENESS

unfamiliarity, strangeness

(noun) unusualness as a consequence of not being well known

foreignness, strangeness, curiousness

(noun) the quality of being alien or not native; “the strangeness of a foreigner”

strangeness

(noun) (physics) one of the six flavors of quark

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

strangeness (usually uncountable, plural strangenesses)

(uncountable) The state or quality of being strange, odd or weird.

(countable) The product or result of being strange.

(physics) One of the quantum numbers of subatomic particles, depending upon the relative number of strange quarks and anti-strange quarks.

Synonyms

• (condition of being strange): oddity, weirdness; see also strangeness

Source: Wiktionary


Strange"ness, n.

Definition: The state or quality of being strange (in any sense of the adjective).

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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