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Definition: Strangeness |
StrangenessNoun1. Unusualness as a consequence of not being well known. 2. The quality of being alien or not native: "the strangeness of a foreigner". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "strangeness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Synonyms: StrangenessSynonyms: curiousness (n), foreignness (n), unfamiliarity (n). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: familiarity (n), nativeness (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Strangeness |
| English words defined with "strangeness": abnormality ♦ curiousness ♦ depersonalisation, depersonalisation disorder, depersonalisation neurosis, depersonalization, depersonalization disorder, depersonalization neurosis ♦ eeriness, elfin ♦ fey, foreignness, freakishness ♦ ghostliness ♦ Marvelousness ♦ Peregrinity ♦ quaintness ♦ singularity, squark, strange particle, strange quark. (references) |
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Screenplays | Welcome to the strangeness of life. (The Day the Women Took Over or I Was a Teenage Neo-Impressionist; writing credit: Mads Nielsen; Peter rskov Madsen) The strangeness of this life cannot be measured: in trying to produce my own death, I was elevated to the status of a living hero. (Dances with Wolves; writing credit: Michael Blake) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Strangeness (1985) | |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Words fail to express the peculiar strangeness of that shudder which chilled her through and through. |
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| "Strangeness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Strangeness" is used about 138 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 138 | 27,024 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "strangeness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | çuditshmëri. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | غرابة (eccentricity, odiousness, otherness, peculiarity, quaintness, queerness, singularity, weirdness, whimsicality, whimsy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | странност (fantasticality, oddity, peculiarity, queerness, singularity), чудатост (comicality, eccentricity, faddiness, kink, peculiarity, quirk, singularity, twist), необичайност (singularity), непознатост. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 奇异性. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zvláštnost (oddity, peculiarity, speciality, specialty), podivnost (oddity), neznámost, kurióznost, cizost. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vieraus, outous (oddness, unfamiliarity), omituisuus (eccentricity, oddity, oddness, peculiarity, queerness), kummallisuus (oddness), eriskummallisuus (oddity, oddness, peculiarity, queerness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | nouveauté, bizarrerie, étrangeté. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Fremdheit (unfamiliarity), Fremdartigkeit (extraneousness, foreignness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | παράξενο. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מוזרות (oddity, peculiarity, weirdness), משו ות (eccentricity), תמי"ות (eccentricity, peculiarity, queerness), זרות (anomaly, foreignness, laity, peculiarity), כר (appreciable, considerable, distinct, foreign land, goodly, marked, noticeable, pronounced, recognised, substantial). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | furcsaság (bizarrerie, freak, funniness, oddity, peculiarity, quaintness, weirdness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | keganjilan (oddity, pecullar nature), keasingan (deviation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | stravaganza (eccentricity, oddness), stranezza (curiousness, eccentricity, oddity, oddness, peculiarity, queerness, quirk, singularity, singularness, unusualness), singolarit (curiousness, singularity), novit (innovation, news, novelty, recency, recentness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 不審 (distrust, doubt, incomplete understanding, infidelity, question, suspicion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | きみょうさ, ふし" (building, center of buoyancy, construction, depression, discredit, disloyalty, distrust, doing everything one can, doubt, dullness, incomplete understanding, infidelity, insincerity, mistrust, perfidy, question, racking one's brains, slump, stagnation, suspicion, taking pains to, unfaithfulness), かいい (brawny, caring about, gigantic, impressive, kanji made up of meaningful parts, muscular, worrying about), かわり (a replacement, a turn, alteration, alternate, an exchange transaction, change, compensation, deputy, difference, proxy, relief, second helping, substitute), いじょう (aberration, abnormality, above, accident, and up, as long as, assignment, beyond, change, disorder, enclosure, exceeding, greater than, more than, over, since, something wrong, surrounding, the above-mentioned, the end, this is all, transfer, transferring to), ストレンジネス . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | joarreeys (alienness, banishment, exile, foreign place, foreignness), anoaysh (novelty), anchliaghtey (inexperience, infrequency). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | angenessstray ciudãţenie (behavior, behaviour, curio, curiosity, eccentricity, extravagance, freak, kink, oddity, oddment, oddness, originality, peculiarity, queerness, quip, singularity, vagary, whim, whimsicality). (various references) странность (kink, oddity, weirdness). (various references) stranost, uzdržanost (restraint, taciturnity), tuđina, čudnovatost. (various references) rareza (extravagance, flitter, freak, gowk, oddity, oddness, peculiarity, quaintness, queerness, rareness, rarity, scarceness, scarcity, weirdness), novedad (development, fad, newness, news, novelty, originality, recency, release), extrañeza (estrangement, surprise). (various references) egendomlighet (oddity, peculiarity, quirk, singularity, whimsicality), besynnerlighet (mysteriousness, oddity, peculiarity, quirk). (various references) yabancılık (alienage, foreignness), tuhaflık (antics, Dido, fad, grotesqueness, novelty, queerness, singularity), gariplik (crankiness, drollery, fad, fantasticality, grotesqueness, oddity, oddness, singularity, whimsicality, whimsicalness), acayiplik (antics, crankiness, eccentricity, fantasticality, lark, novelty, oddity, oddness, peculiarity, queerness, quirk, singularity, whimsicality, whimsicalness). (various references) невідомість (obscureness, obscurity, peradventure, shadow, uncertainty), незвичність, дивність (curiosity, eccentricity, oddness, queerness). (various references) tính xa lạ tính kỳ lạ, tính lạ, tính kỳ quặc (crotchetiness, drollness, queerness, unaccountableness). (various references) dieithrwch, chwithdod (sadness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | novitas, novitate, novitates. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "strangeness": strangenesses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "strangeness" (pronounced strā"njnus) |
| 4 | -j n u s | largeness. |
| 3 | -n u s | abruptness, absoluteness, acuteness, aggressiveness, agribusiness, airworthiness, alertness, aloofness, alumnus, Anas, androgynous, anise, appropriateness, arbitrariness, assertiveness, astuteness, asynchronous, attentiveness, attractiveness, awareness, awfulness, awkwardness, backwardness, badness, bagginess, baldness, bearishness, bigness, bitterness, bituminous, blackness, blandness, bleakness, blindness, bluntness, boldness, bonus, boorishness, brashness, brightness, bullishness, business, callousness, calmness, carelessness, casualness, cautiousness, cavernous, cheapness, chitinous, cleanliness, cleanness, cleverness, closeness, cloudiness, clumsiness, cockiness, cohesiveness, coldness, Colonus, combativeness, compactness, competitiveness, completeness, consciousness, contagiousness, contentiousness, contrariness, Conus, coolness, correctness, coziness, craziness, creativeness, creditworthiness, creepiness, crispness, crookedness, cuteness, dampness, darkness, Deaconess, deadliness, deafness, decisiveness, defensiveness, destructiveness, directness, disingenuousness, distinctiveness, divisiveness, dizziness, dreariness, drowsiness, drunkenness, dryness, dullness, eagerness, earnestness, edginess, effectiveness, elusiveness, emptiness, evenness, exogenous, eyewitness, faintness, fairness, farsightedness, fastness, fickleness, firmness, fitness, flatness, fondness, foolishness, forcefulness, forgiveness, forthrightness, foulness, fractiousness, frankness, freshness, friendliness, frothiness, fullness, funniness, furnace, gauntness, gayness, gelatinous, gentleness, genuineness, genus, ghastliness, gluttonous, goodness, governess, graciousness, greatness, greenness, grimness, hairiness, handedness, happiness, hardness, harmfulness, harness, harshness, heinous, helplessness, highness, hoarseness, holiness, homelessness, homesickness, homogenous, hopefulness, hopelessness, humanness, idleness, illness, inclusiveness, indebtedness, indecisiveness, indigenous, ineffectiveness, ineptness, inertness, intravenous, intrusiveness, inventiveness, joblessness, Johannes, kindness, larcenous, lateness, lawlessness, laziness, lenis, lightfastness, lightness, likeness, liveliness, loneliness, lousiness, luminous, madness, Manus, meanness, membranous, menace, Minas, mindedness, minus, monotonous, mountainous, mutinous, narrowness, nastiness, nearsightedness, neatness, nervousness, newness, niceness, niggardliness, nitrogenous, nonbusiness, nonpoisonous, nosiness, nothingness, numbness, ominous, oneness, onus, openness, orderliness, otherness, outrageousness, outspokenness, pandanus, peacefulness, penis, permissiveness, persuasiveness, pervasiveness, pettiness, playfulness, poisonous, politeness, polygynous, pompousness, possessiveness, powerlessness, preparedness, queasiness, quickness, quietness, raciness, randomness, rareness, ravenous, rawness, readiness, reasonableness, rebelliousness, recklessness, redness, remoteness, resistiveness, resourcefulness, responsiveness, restiveness, restlessness, restrictiveness, richness, righteousness, rightness, riskiness, robustness, roominess, roughness, rowdiness, rudeness, ruinous, ruthlessness, sacredness, sadness, Salinas, sameness, scantiness, secretiveness, selfishness, selflessness, sensitiveness, separateness, seriousness, shakiness, shallowness, sharpness, shortness, shortsightedness, shrewdness, shyness, sickness, silliness, sinus, skittishness, slackness, sleepiness, sloppiness, slovenliness, slowness, sluggishness, slyness, smallness, smoothness, smugness, softness, solitariness, soundness, spiritedness, squeamishness, starkness, steadfastness, steadiness, steepness, sternness, stiffness, stillness, stinginess, stoutness, stubbornness, sturdiness, suddenness, suggestiveness, sweetness, swiftness, tardiness, tartness, tastiness, tenderness, tetanus, thickness, thinness, thoroughness, thoughtfulness, tightness, timeliness, tiredness, togetherness, toughness, trustworthiness, truthfulness, ugliness, unconsciousness, uneasiness, unfairness, unhappiness, uniqueness, unpleasantness, unwieldiness, unwillingness, usefulness, vagueness, vastness, venous, viciousness, villainous, vindictiveness, vividness, voluminous, wariness, wastefulness, waterishness, weakness, weariness, weightlessness, weirdness, wellness, wetness, whiteness, wholeness, wholesomeness, wickedness, wilderness, wildness, willingness, wimpiness, wistfulness, witness, wonderfulness, worldliness, worthiness, wryness. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-n-n-r-s-s-s-t" | |
-2 letters: assenters, estranges, greatness, sarsenets, sergeants, sternness. | |
-3 letters: assenter, earnests, ensnares, estrange, gastness, grantees, greatens, nearness, neatness, negaters, reagents, rennases, restages, sageness, saneness, sarsenet, sensates, sergeant. | |
-4 letters: argents, assents, asserts, earnest, eastern, easters, enrages, ensnare, entases, ergates, gannets, garnets, gassers, gasters, gerents, grantee, grasses, greases, greaten, nearest, neatens, negater, negates, nesters, reagent, regents, regnant. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-n-n-r-s-s-s-t" | |
+2 letters: reassignments, strangenesses. | |
+3 letters: ignorantnesses. | |
+4 letters: everlastingness, nearsightedness. | |
+5 letters: degeneratenesses, regeneratenesses, ungratefulnesses. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Translations: Ancient 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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