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

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates