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strangeness
CIDE DICTIONARY
strangeness, n.
The state or quality of being strange (in any sense of the adjective). [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
strangeness, n.
1 the state or fact of being strange or unfamiliar etc.
2 Physics a property of certain elementary particles that is conserved in strong interactions.
1 the state or fact of being strange or unfamiliar etc.
2 Physics a property of certain elementary particles that is conserved in strong interactions.
THESAURUS
strangeness
Kern, NMR, aberration, abnormality, absurdity, alienation, alpha particle, anomaly, antibaryon, anticness, antilepton, antimeson, atomic nucleus, atomic particle, baryon, beta particle, bizarreness, bizarrerie, brain damage, brainsickness, brand-newness, callowness, clouded mind, conceit, crackpotism, crank, crankiness, crankism, craziness, crotchet, crotchetiness, curiousness, daftness, deformity, dementedness, dementia, derangement, deviancy, deviation, dewiness, differentness, disorientation, distraction, divergence, dottiness, eccentricity, electron, elementary particle, erraticism, erraticness, fantasticality, folie, freakiness, freakishness, freshness, furor, gloss of novelty, greenness, grotesqueness, grotesquerie, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, immaturity, insaneness, insanity, intactness, irrationality, irregularity, kink, lateness, lepton, loss of mind, loss of reason, lunacy, madness, maggot, maidenhood, malformation, mania, mannerism, mental deficiency, mental derangement, mental disease, mental disorder, mental disturbance, mental illness, mental instability, mental sickness, meson, mind overthrown, mindsickness, mint condition, monstrosity, monstrousness, neutron, newbornness, newfangledness, newfangleness, newness, nonconformity, novelness, novelty, nowness, nuclear force, nuclear magnetic resonance, nuclear particle, nuclear resonance, nucleon, nucleosynthesis, nucleus, oddity, oddness, originality, outlandishness, peculiarity, photon, pixilation, possession, presentness, pristineness, proton, quaintness, queerness, quip, quirk, quirkiness, rabidness, rawness, reasonlessness, recency, recentness, senselessness, shattered mind, sick mind, sickness, singularity, strong interaction, teratism, trick, triton, twist, unbalance, unbalanced mind, uncommonness, unconventionality, unfamiliarity, unnaturalness, unsaneness, unsound mind, unsoundness, unsoundness of mind, unusualness, valence electron, virginity, weirdness, whim, whimsicality, whimsy, witlessnessFor further exploring for "strangeness" in Webster Dictionary Online