Associations to the word «Strangeness»

Wiktionary

STRANGENESS, noun. (uncountable) The state or quality of being strange, odd or weird.
STRANGENESS, noun. (countable) The product or result of being strange.
STRANGENESS, noun. (physics) one of the quantum numbers of subatomic particles that depends upon the relative number of strange quarks and anti-strange quarks

Dictionary definition

STRANGENESS, noun. Unusualness as a consequence of not being well known.
STRANGENESS, noun. (physics) one of the six flavors of quark.
STRANGENESS, noun. The quality of being alien or not native; "the strangeness of a foreigner".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats