Webster's 1828 Dictionary

STRANGENESS

n. 1. Foreignness; the state of belonging to another country.
If I will obey the gospel, no distance of place, no strangeness of country can make any man a stranger to me.
2. Distance in behavior; reserve; coldness; forbidding manner.
Will you not observe the strangeness of his alterd countenance?
3. Remoteness from common manners or notions; uncouthness.
Men worthier than himself here tend the savage strangeness he puts on.
4. Alienation of mind; estrangement; mutual dislike.
This might seem a means to continue a strangeness between two nations. [This sense is obsolete or little used. ]
5. Wonderfulness; the power of exciting surprise and wonder; uncommonness that raises wonder by novelty.
This raised greater tumults in the hearts of men than the strangeness and seeming unreasonableness of all the former articles.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

STRANGENESS

STRANGENESS Strange "ness, n.

 

Defn: The state or quality of being strange (in any sense of the adjective ).

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

strangeness

strange ness |ˈstrānjnis ˈstreɪnʤnəs | ▶noun 1 the state or fact of being strange. 2 Physics one of six flavors of quark.

 

Oxford Dictionary

strangeness

strange |ness |ˈstreɪn (d )ʒnɪs | ▶noun [ mass noun ] 1 the state or fact of being strange. 2 Physics one of six flavours of quark.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

strangeness

strangeness noun there was a strangeness about Wally that I couldn't quite explain: oddity, eccentricity, peculiarity, curiousness, bizarreness, weirdness, queerness, unusualness, abnormality, unaccountability, inexplicability, incongruousness, outlandishness, singularity.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

strangeness

strangeness noun the strangeness of Eliot's behaviour: oddity, eccentricity, oddness, peculiarity, curiousness, bizarreness, weirdness, queerness, unexpectedness, unusualness, abnormality, atypicality, unfamiliarity, unaccountability, inexplicability, incongruity, incongruousness, outlandishness, irregularity, singularity; freakishness, surrealness. ANTONYMS ordinariness, conventionality.

 

Duden Dictionary

Strangeness

Strange ness Substantiv, feminin Physik , die |ˈstreɪndʒnɪs |die Strangeness; Genitiv: der Strangeness englisch ; »Fremdartigkeit «Quantenzahl zur Klassifizierung von Elementarteilchen

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

strangeness

str á nge ness 名詞 U 未知 ; 奇妙さ, 不思議さ .