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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (3)

1. unusualness as a consequence of not being well known;
[syn: unfamiliarity, strangeness]

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

3. the quality of being alien or not native;
- Example: "the strangeness of a foreigner"
[syn: foreignness, strangeness, curiousness]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Strangeness \Strange"ness\, n. The state or quality of being strange (in any sense of the adjective). [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

strangeness n 1: unusualness as a consequence of not being well known [syn: unfamiliarity, strangeness] [ant: familiarity] 2: (physics) one of the six flavors of quark 3: the quality of being alien or not native; "the strangeness of a foreigner" [syn: foreignness, strangeness, curiousness] [ant: nativeness]