What part of speech is strangeness?

Strangeness can be categorized as a noun.

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Parts of speech

Inflections

Noun

What does strangeness mean?

Definitions

Noun

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

Examples of strangeness

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1. noun The strangeness of a foreigner.
2. noun For the woman the child is a completion, and a liberation from all strangeness and insecurity: it is also, mentally, a sign of maturity.
3. noun When Rhodopis was bathing, an eagle snatched one of her sandals from her maid and carried it to Memphis; and while the king was administering justice in the open air, the eagle, when it arrived above his head, flung the sandal into his lap; and the king, stirred both by the beautiful shape of the sandal and by the strangeness of the occurrence, sent men in all directions into the country in quest of the woman who wore the sandal; and when she was found in the city of Naucratis, she was brought up to Memphis, became the wife of the king, and when she died was honoured with a great tomb.
4. noun It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. The most commonplace crime is often the most mysterious, because it presents no new or special features from which deductions may be drawn.
Sentence  
noun
The strangeness of a foreigner.
For the woman the child is a completion, and a liberation from all strangeness and insecurity: it is also, mentally, a sign of maturity.
When Rhodopis was bathing, an eagle snatched one of her sandals from her maid and carried it to Memphis; and while the king was administering justice in the open air, the eagle, when it arrived above his head, flung the sandal into his lap; and the king, stirred both by the beautiful shape of the sandal and by the strangeness of the occurrence, sent men in all directions into the country in quest of the woman who wore the sandal; and when she was found in the city of Naucratis, she was brought up to Memphis, became the wife of the king, and when she died was honoured with a great tomb.
It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. The most commonplace crime is often the most mysterious, because it presents no new or special features from which deductions may be drawn.

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