STRANGENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does strangeness mean? 

• STRANGENESS (noun)
  The noun STRANGENESS has 3 senses:

1. unusualness as a consequence of not being well known

2. (physics) one of the six flavors of quark

3. the quality of being alien or not native

  Familiarity information: STRANGENESS used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STRANGENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Unusualness as a consequence of not being well known

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

strangeness; unfamiliarity

Hypernyms ("strangeness" is a kind of...):

unusualness (uncommonness by virtue of being unusual)

Attribute:

foreign; strange (relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "strangeness"):

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)

Derivation:

strange (not known before)

strange (being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(physics) one of the six flavors of quark

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("strangeness" is a kind of...):

flavor; flavour ((physics) the six kinds of quarks)

Domain category:

high-energy physics; high energy physics; particle physics (the branch of physics that studies subatomic particles and their interactions)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The quality of being alien or not native

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

curiousness; foreignness; strangeness

Context example:

the strangeness of a foreigner

Hypernyms ("strangeness" is a kind of...):

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

Attribute:

foreign; strange (relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "strangeness"):

exoticism; exoticness; exotism (the quality of being exotic)

alienage; alienism (the quality of being alien)

 Context examples 

The strangeness of Mr. Collins's making two offers of marriage within three days was nothing in comparison of his being now accepted.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I was puzzled by the strangeness of it.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It was true, his bizarre judgments troubled her in the moments they were uttered, but she ascribed them to his novelty of type and strangeness of living, and they were soon forgotten.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I recalled that inward sensation I had experienced: for I could recall it, with all its unspeakable strangeness.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The very place, where he have been alive, Un-Dead for all these centuries, is full of strangeness of the geologic and chemical world.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

And furthermore, such was the strangeness of it, White Fang experienced an unaccountable sensation of pleasure as the hand rubbed back and forth.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

She began to think that he must be in liquor;—the strangeness of such a visit, and of such manners, seemed no otherwise intelligible; and with this impression she immediately rose, saying, Mr. Willoughby, I advise you at present to return to Combe—I am not at leisure to remain with you longer.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

It was the first time that the lawyer had been received in that part of his friend’s quarters; and he eyed the dingy, windowless structure with curiosity, and gazed round with a distasteful sense of strangeness as he crossed the theatre, once crowded with eager students and now lying gaunt and silent, the tables laden with chemical apparatus, the floor strewn with crates and littered with packing straw, and the light falling dimly through the foggy cupola.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

So it was that she looked upon Martin Eden as a novelty, a strange individual, and she identified with novelty and strangeness the effects he produced upon her.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

There was for me no strangeness to it, to the rough clothes, the coarse faces, the wild laughter, and the lurching cabin walls and swaying sea-lamps.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)