strangeness

[ US /ˈstɹeɪndʒnəs/ ]
[ UK /stɹˈe‍ɪnd‍ʒnəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. unusualness as a consequence of not being well known
  2. the quality of being alien or not native
    the strangeness of a foreigner
  3. (physics) one of the six flavors of quark
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How To Use strangeness In A Sentence

  • There's a strangeness about the whole image, as though a story lurks untold. The Times Literary Supplement
  • And the music had its natural squirminess, anxiety, and strangeness. New York Sun - All Articles
  • The shock of finding herself homeless and possessionless was not nearly as great as the strangeness of realizing that someone wanted her dead. Sonnet of the Sphinx
  • Such poems can be new, one might say, because the vicissitudes and the strangeness of life are really inexhaustible. The Times Literary Supplement
  • But now, this t-shirt redeems all the other strangenesses.
  • But there is no strangeness, only the familiarity of a shared past.
  • Darkness threw a cloak over my strangeness, so that people let me pass with a nod or a softly called greeting.
  • Fortunately, this volume does not lose sight of the strangeness of the poetical perspective; neither is it entirely devoted to the tangible and the earthy.
  • Tracey briefly considered not schooling the newcomer to the strangeness of her boss, but it wasn't like she was degrading his supervisor.
  • For us, then, the film has a dash of curiosity-piquing strangeness. Times, Sunday Times
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