English noun: strangeness |
1. | strangeness (attribute) unusualness as a consequence of not being well known |
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| Synonyms | unfamiliarity |
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| Broader (hypernym) | unusualness |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | abnormality, bizarreness, crotchet, eccentricity, eeriness, freakishness, ghostliness, oddity, outlandishness, quaintness, queerness, quirk, quirkiness, singularity, weirdness |
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| Attribute | foreign, strange |
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| Antonyms | familiarity |
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2. | strangeness (cognition) (physics) one of the six flavors of quark |
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| Broader (hypernym) | flavor, flavour |
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| Domain category | high energy physics, high-energy physics, particle physics |
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3. | strangeness (attribute) the quality of being alien or not native |
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| Samples | The strangeness of a foreigner.
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| Synonyms | curiousness, foreignness |
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| Broader (hypernym) | quality |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | alienage, alienism, exoticism, exoticness, exotism |
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| Attribute | foreign, strange |
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| Antonyms | nativeness |
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