strangeness

Noun

Meaning

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

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

triton quirk weird difference proton deviation divergence curiosity novelty aberration singularity anomaly eccentricity irregularity abnormality

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Antonyms

newton standard convention understanding balance accuracy

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Hypernyms

quality flavour

Hyponyms

singularity abnormality oddity exoticism crotchet queerness

Related terms

strange strangely stranger

Phrases with the word

outside strangeness

Examples

Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty. Charles Baudelaire

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. Francis Bacon

Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the interest of the world, and show the strangeness and wonder lying just below the surface even in the commonest things of daily life. Bertrand Russell

You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God. Graham Greene

The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome. Douglas Adams

[W]e would probably claim Kafka as an Irish writer. His tone of voice is certainly quite Irish: that sense of melancholy, that sense of strangeness and of being a stranger in the world. I think that we empathise with that very much indeed. John Banville

Close letter words and terms

strangely strangely enough strangely warmed strangeon star strangeonium stranger