strangeness

Meanings

Plural: strangenesses

Noun

• unusualness as a consequence of not being well known
• (physics) one of the six flavors of quark
• the quality of being alien or not native
  • "the strangeness of a foreigner"
• The state or quality of being strange, odd or weird.
• The product or result of being strange.
• One of the quantum numbers of subatomic particles, depending upon the relative number of strange quarks and anti-strange quarks.

Synonyms

abnormalcy, abnormalism, abnormality, abnormity, anomalousness, atypicality, crotchet, curiousness, deviancy, eccentricity, enormity, extraordinariness, foreignness, freakishness, irregularity, nonnormality, oddity, oddness, peculiarness, queerhood, queerness, quirk, quirkiness, rumness, strangeness, unfamiliarity, unusuality, unusualness, weirdness

Antonyms

familiarity, nativeness, normality

Related Words

strange, strangely, stranger