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Synonyms for strangeness
ˈstreɪndʒ nɪsstrange·ness
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Princeton's WordNet
unfamiliarity, strangenessnoun
unusualness as a consequence of not being well known
Synonyms:
unfamiliarity, foreignness, curiousnessstrangenessnoun
(physics) one of the six flavors of quark
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unfamiliarity, foreignness, curiousnessforeignness, strangeness, curiousnessnoun
the quality of being alien or not native
"the strangeness of a foreigner"
Synonyms:
unfamiliarity, foreignness, curiousness, inquisitiveness
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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.
Your death and my death are mainly of importance to ourselves. The black plumes will be stripped off our hearses within the hour; tears will dry, hurt hearts close again, our graves grow level with the church-yard, and although we are away, the world wags on. It does not miss us; and those who are near us, when the first strangeness of vacancy wears off, will not miss us much either.
It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world. Expecting more novelty than there is, more greatness than there is, and more strangeness than there is, we imagine ourselves masters of a plastic universe. But a world we can shape to our will is a shapeless world.
The modern American tourist now fills his experience with pseudo-events. He has come to expect both more strangeness and more familiarity than the world naturally offers. He has come to believe that he can have a lifetime of adventure in two weeks and all the thrills of risking his life without any real risk at all.
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