[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]