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STRANGENESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Unusualness as a consequence of not being well known
Synonyms:
strangeness; unfamiliarity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("strangeness" is a kind of...):
unusualness (uncommonness by virtue of being unusual)
Attribute:
foreign; strange (relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "strangeness"):
crotchet; oddity; queerness; quirk; quirkiness (a strange attitude or habit)
eeriness; ghostliness (strangeness by virtue of being mysterious and inspiring fear)
abnormality; freakishness (marked strangeness as a consequence of being abnormal)
singularity (strangeness by virtue of being remarkable or unusual)
bizarreness; outlandishness; weirdness (strikingly out of the ordinary)
quaintness (strangeness as a consequence of being old fashioned)
eccentricity (strange and unconventional behavior)
Derivation:
strange (not known before)
strange (being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The quality of being alien or not native
Example:
the strangeness of a foreigner
Synonyms:
curiousness; foreignness; strangeness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("strangeness" is a kind of...):
quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)
Attribute:
foreign; strange (relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "strangeness"):
exoticism; exoticness; exotism (the quality of being exotic)
alienage; alienism (the quality of being alien)
Sense 3
Meaning:
(physics) one of the six flavors of quark
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("strangeness" is a kind of...):
flavor; flavour ((physics) the six kinds of quarks)
Domain category:
high-energy physics; high energy physics; particle physics (the branch of physics that studies subatomic particles and their interactions)
Context examples:
The terrible sea, the frail boat, the storms, the suffering, the strangeness and isolation of the situation,—all that should have frightened a robust woman,—seemed to make no impression upon her who had known life only in its most sheltered and consummately artificial aspects, and who was herself all fire and dew and mist, sublimated spirit, all that was soft and tender and clinging in woman.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
