strangeness

Definitions of strangeness

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n the quality of being alien or not native

“the strangeness of a foreigner”

Synonyms:: curiousness, foreignness

Antonyms:: nativeness
the quality of belonging to or being connected with a certain place or region by virtue of birth or origin

Types:: exoticism, exoticness, exotism
the quality of being exotic; alienage, alienism
the quality of being alien

Type of:: quality
an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone

n unusualness as a consequence of not being well known

Synonyms:: unfamiliarity

Antonyms:: familiarity
usualness by virtue of being familiar or well known

Types:: show 8 types...; hide 8 types...; 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; oddity, oddness
eccentricity that is not easily explained

Type of:: unusualness
uncommonness by virtue of being unusual

n (physics) one of the six flavors of quark

Type of:: flavor, flavour
(physics) the six kinds of quarks