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Definition of Strangeness
1. Noun. Unusualness as a consequence of not being well known.
Generic synonyms: Unusualness
Specialized synonyms: Crotchet, Oddity, Queerness, Quirk, Quirkiness, Eeriness, Ghostliness, Abnormality, Freakishness, Singularity, Bizarreness, Outlandishness, Weirdness, Quaintness, Eccentricity
Attributes: Foreign, Strange
Derivative terms: Strange, Strange, Unfamiliar
Antonyms: Familiarity
2. Noun. (physics) one of the six flavors of quark.
Category relationships: High Energy Physics, High-energy Physics, Particle Physics
3. Noun. The quality of being alien or not native. "The strangeness of a foreigner"
Generic synonyms: Quality
Specialized synonyms: Exoticism, Exoticness, Exotism, Alienage, Alienism
Attributes: Foreign, Strange
Derivative terms: Curious, Foreign
Antonyms: Nativeness
Definition of Strangeness
1. n. The state or quality of being strange (in any sense of the adjective).
Definition of Strangeness
1. Noun. The state or quality of being strange, odd or weird. ¹
2. Noun. The product or result of being strange. ¹
3. Noun. (physics) one of the quantum numbers of subatomic particles that depends upon the relative number of strange quarks and anti-strange quarks ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Strangeness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Strangeness
Literary usage of Strangeness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hawthorne and His Circle by Julian Hawthorne (1903)
"The Angel in the House"—Very well dressed—Indomitable figure, aggressively
American—Too much of the elixir of life—A little strangeness between ..."
2. Hawthorne and His Circle by Julian Hawthorne (1903)
"... well dressed—Indomitable figure, aggressively American—Too much of the elixir
of life—A little strangeness between us—Sunshine will always rest on it. ..."
3. Four Years in Secessia: Adventures Within and Beyond the Union Lines by Junius Henri Browne (1865)
"—Shuddering strangeness of the Past.—The Secretary of War Responsible for the
Sacrifice of Ten Thousand Lives. AFTER nine months of confinement, ..."
4. The New World: College Readings in English edited by Harold Lawton Bruce, Guy Montgomery (1920)
"As first perceived, the outward strangeness of things in Japan produces (in
certain minds, at least) a queer thrill impossible to describe,— a feeling of ..."
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