strangeness
strangeness noun: the state or quality of being strange, odd or weird.
Noun
strangeness (usually uncountable, plural strangenesses)
- The state or quality of being strange, odd or weird.
- The product or result of being strange.
- One of the quantum numbers of subatomic particles, depending upon the relative number of strange quarks and anti-strange quarks.
- Mesons which combine the charmed quark with the up or down antiquarks are denoted the D mesons. These mesons carry explicit charm (i.e. have a non-zero charm quantum number), just as the K mesons carry strangeness.2020, James E. Dodd, Ben Gripaios, The Ideas of Particle Physics, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 173
strangeness meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada
strangeness in Hindi
- (uncountable) quality of being strange
- विलक्षणता vilakṣaṇtā, विचित्रता vicitratā, अनोखापन anokhāpan
strangeness in Tamil
- strangeness, foreignness
- ஏதின்மை ētiṉmai
- strangeness, queerness, oddity
- விநோதம் vinōtam
strangeness in Malayalam
- അന്യഭാവം, അദ്ഭുതം, അപൂർവ്വത
strangeness in Kannada
- ವಿಲಕ್ಷಣ
More languagesFewer languages
- strangeness in Arabic
- غَرَابَة ḡarāba
Examples of strangeness in a sentence
- It’s an aesthetic that embraces sadness, strangeness, and the eerie magic woven through dark fairy-tale imagery.
- There are few creatures that embody the strangeness of the extinct quite like azhdarchids.
- As a result we rob ourselves of the strangeness that lies ahead.
Synonyms of strangeness
- oddity
- weirdness
- abnormalcy
- abnormalism
- abnormality
- anomalousness
- atypicality
- crotchet
- deviancy
- eccentricity
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Antonyms
Forms of strangeness
| plural | strangenesses |
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Origin of strangeness
From Middle English straungenesse; equivalent to strange + -ness.
Words formed from strangeness
Questions about strangeness
- What does strangeness mean?
- Strangeness means the state or quality of being strange, odd or weird.
- What is strangeness in Hindi?
- Strangeness in Hindi is विलक्षणता (vilakṣaṇtā), विचित्रता (vicitratā), अनोखापन (anokhāpan). See Strangeness meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is strangeness?
- Strangeness is a noun.
- What is the plural of strangeness?
- The plural of strangeness is strangenesses.
Words near strangeness in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: strangeness (page history and authors); ஏதின்மை (Tamil) (page history and authors); strangeness (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); strangeness (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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