Strangeness

Strange′ness

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Noun.

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

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Noun.

1.

Foreignness; the state of belonging to another country.

If I will obey the gospel, no distance of place, no strangeness of country can make any man a stranger to me.

2.

Distance in behavior; reserve; coldness; forbidding manner.

Will you not observe the strangeness of his alterd countenance?

3.

Remoteness from common manners or notions; uncouthness.

Men worthier than himself here tend the savage strangeness he puts on.

4.

Alienation of mind; estrangement; mutual dislike.

This might seem a means to continue a strangeness between two nations. [This sense is obsolete or little used.

5.

Wonderfulness; the power of exciting surprise and wonder; uncommonness that raises wonder by novelty.

This raised greater tumults in the hearts of men than the strangeness and seeming unreasonableness of all the former articles.

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 that depends upon the relative number of strange quarks and anti-strange quarks