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strangeness noun [ ˈstreɪn(d)ʒnəs ]

• the state or fact of being strange.
Similar: oddity, eccentricity, oddness, peculiarity, curiousness, bizarreness, weirdness, queerness, unexpectedness, unusualness, abnormality, atypicality, unfamiliarity, unaccountability, inexplicability, incongruity, incongruousness, outlandishness, irregularity, singularity, freakishness, surrealness,
Opposite: ordinariness, conventionality,
• a characteristic property of certain subatomic particles (specifically strange quarks, strange antiquarks, and hadrons containing these), expressed as a quantum number.


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