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• n  unusualness as a consequence of not being well known
• n  (physics) one of the six flavors of quark
• n  the quality of being alien or not native
  the strangeness of a foreigner

• Founded in 1992, Random astounds audiences with the sheer strangeness of his vision.
• The strangeness of the whole affair was not lost on film students in the audience, one of whom caught it on film .
• The honest answer, of course, is that he would be bewildered by the strangeness of everything, as people blind from birth are said to be when shocked by the "gift" of sight.

• unfamiliarity
• foreignness
• curiousness

• familiarity
• nativeness

News & Articles

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• Lafayette's Jackalope Play Festival is a scary fun time
  Things that go bump in the night take center stage during The Theater Company of Lafayette's Jackalope Play Festival: Summer Tales of Strangeness. It's a clever concept, this idea of commissioning six playwrights to compose short plays based on urban legends. It's tales told around the campfire rendered as realism.
  June 28, 2013 - Boulder Daily Camera
• Five of the strangest Irish bands
  The chances are, you probably haven't heard of these bands, who celebrate strangeness in all its glory. Some have achieved more success than others; some are much more musically proficient than others.
  June 28, 2013 - Irish Central
• Proof Mooted For Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle
  ananyo writes "Encapsulating the strangeness of quantum mechanics is a single mathematical expression. According to every undergraduate physics textbook, the uncertainty principle states that it is impossible to simultaneously know the exact position and momentum of a subatomic particle — the more precisely one knows the particle's position at a given moment, the less precisely one can know the ...
  June 26, 2013 - Slashdot