strangeness
Quality of peculiarity
Strangeness is the quality of being strange—unfamiliar, odd, or difficult to understand.
It can describe something merely unusual the strangeness of a foreign city at night or something deeply unsettling a strangeness in his manner that made her uneasy.
In physics, strangeness is a quantum property of certain subatomic particles.
Something unusual or unexpected
- quirkPeculiar behavioral trait
- idiosyncrasyDistinctive personal peculiarity
- eccentricityUnconventional behavior or nature
- anomalyDeparture from the expected
aberration · irregularity · singularity · curiosity · deviation · abnormality · unconventionality · nonconformity
Eerily beyond normal
- otherworldlySeemingly not earthly
- eldritchWeirdly supernatural, disturbingly strange
- supernaturalBeyond natural explanation
- spectralGhostlike or wavelength-related
ghostly · haunted · creepy · spooky · phantasmal · macabre · sinister · ominous
From another nation
- outlandishStrikingly weird or foreign-seeming
- alienNon-native being
- unfamiliarNot previously known
- otherworldlySeemingly not earthly
bizarre · tropical · eclectic · cosmopolitan · diverse · ethnic · vibrant · colorful
Something hard to fathom
- enigmaticPuzzling and obscure
- crypticObscure in meaning
- arcaneUnderstood by few
- occultConcealed from view
mystique · unknown · secrets · intrigue · cipher · esoteric · inscrutable · unfathomable
State of being recent
- unfamiliarityLack of prior knowledge
- freshnessState of being unspoiled
- originalityNovel creative quality
- uniquenessQuality of being singular
innovation · unexpectedness · surprise · unprecedented · unheard-of · newfangled · unconventional · unorthodox
oddity
Something unusual or unexpected
- quirkPeculiar behavioral trait
- idiosyncrasyDistinctive personal peculiarity
- eccentricityUnconventional behavior or nature
anomaly · aberration · irregularity · singularity · curiosity · deviation · abnormality · unconventionality · nonconformity · rarity
uncanny
Eerily beyond normal
- otherworldlySeemingly not earthly
- eldritchWeirdly supernatural, disturbingly strange
- supernaturalBeyond natural explanation
spectral · ghostly · haunted · creepy · spooky · phantasmal · macabre · sinister · ominous · foreboding
foreign
From another nation
- outlandishStrikingly weird or foreign-seeming
- alienNon-native being
- unfamiliarNot previously known
otherworldly · bizarre · tropical · eclectic · cosmopolitan · diverse · ethnic · vibrant · colorful · lush
enigma
Something hard to fathom
occult · mystique · unknown · secrets · intrigue · cipher · esoteric · inscrutable · unfathomable · impenetrable
newness
State of being recent
- unfamiliarityLack of prior knowledge
- freshnessState of being unspoiled
- originalityNovel creative quality
uniqueness · innovation · unexpectedness · surprise · unprecedented · unheard-of · newfangled · unconventional · unorthodox · experimental
- weirdness synonymsweirdness, oddity, bizarreness, peculiarity, unusualness
- Anomaliesanomaly, deviation, aberration, irregularity, oddity
- Odditiescuriosity, curio, unusual, odd, anomaly
- strangenessodd, weird, bizarre, peculiar, unusual
- traitshonesty, ambitious, brave, calm, kindness
- particle physicsquark, quarks, lepton, leptons, boson
strangenessfamiliarity
Knowledge through experience
acquaintanceship · recognition · knowingness · intimacy · closeness
strangenessnormalcy
State of being typical
normality · ordinariness · usualness · regularity · typicality
strangenessconventionality
Adherence to accepted customs
convention · orthodoxy · conformity · standardness · traditionalism
strange, stranger, strangely, strangers, strangest, estranged, estrange, estrangement, estranges