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noun
The state or quality of being strange, odd or weird.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: oddity, weirdness
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The product or result of being strange.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, usually
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
One of the quantum numbers of subatomic particles, depending upon the relative number of strange quarks and anti-strange quarks.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: particle, uncountable, usually
Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
unusualness as a consequence of not being well known
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: unfamiliarity
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: unusualness
Narrower terms: oddity, queerness, quirk, quirkiness, crotchet, eeriness, ghostliness, abnormality, freakishness, singularity, outlandishness, bizarreness, weirdness, quaintness, eccentricity
noun
the quality of being alien or not native
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: foreignness, curiousness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: quality
Narrower terms: exoticism, exoticness, exotism, alienage, alienism
noun
(physics) one of the six flavors of quark
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: flavor, flavour
History
From Middle English straungenesse; equivalent to strange + -ness.
Across languages
29 source translations are retained for this English entry.
