English > strangeness: 3 senses > noun 1, attribute| Meaning | unusualness as a consequence of not being well known. |
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| Synonym | unfamiliarity |
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| Attributes | foreign, strange | relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world |
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| Narrower | abnormality, freakishness | marked strangeness as a consequence of being abnormal |
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| eccentricity | strange and unconventional behavior |
| eeriness, ghostliness | strangeness by virtue of being mysterious and inspiring fear |
| oddity, queerness, quirk, quirkiness, crotchet | A strange attitude or habit |
| outlandishness, bizarreness, weirdness | strikingly out of the ordinary |
| quaintness | strangeness as a consequence of being old fashioned |
| singularity | strangeness by virtue of being remarkable or unusual |
| Broader | unusualness | uncommonness by virtue of being unusual |
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| Opposite | familiarity | usualness by virtue of being familiar or well known |
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| Spanish | desconocimiento, extrañeza, rareza |
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| Catalan | desconeixement, extranyesa |
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| Adjectives | strange | being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected |
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| strange | not known before |
