Definition of strangeness
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:the quality or state of being strange
2
:the flavor characterizing a strange quark
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Ultimately, the unlikeliness of the Dawson, its subtle and grand strangeness, comes from wandering around and letting Dawson happen to you.
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Inert twittering this is not: In seven books, 13 movements and some two and a half hours of music, this composer reflects our natural world, in all its strangeness and violence, and invents his own.
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Birmingham, Ala. — Southern Gothic is a literary genre and, occasionally, a political style that, like the genre, blends strangeness and irony.
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There is absolutely national interest just because of the strangeness of the situation.
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If the world throws some small strangeness at you, this is a chance to test the strength of your voice.
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The interplay among clarity, strangeness, dreaminess, and wildness is the perfect reflection of ‘
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Just keeping your balance requires so much work, and keeping your goodness requires even more, but even this strangeness is worth it.
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The young man who had been hired to watch a glass portal doubted the possibility of such strangeness, and was horribly murdered as a result.
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First Known Use of strangeness
14th century
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