Synonyms for strangeness
Most common
weirdness oddity oddness eccentricity foreignness curiousness
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Weirdness — the state or quality of being strange, odd or weird
weirdness, oddity, oddness, eccentricity, quirkiness, quirk, singularity, queerness, anomaly, irregularity, abnormality, deviancy, aberration, crotchet, unusualness, freakishness, alienness, peculiarity, anomalousness, enormity dated, abnormity rare
2. Foreignness
Other
Definitions
- n. 1
The state or quality of being strange, odd or weird.
- n. 2
The product or result of being strange.
Related words
- Word family
- strange stranger strangely
- Is a kind of
- nonuniformity
Forms
- Plural
- strangenesses → weirdnesses, oddities, oddnesses, eccentricities…
Example sentences
- weirdness Spiritualness doesn't always equal weirdness.
- eccentricity Not all eccentricity is mental illness.
- oddness There’s a sense of oddness here.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| strangeness | rising | |
| weirdness | rising | |
| eccentricity | falling | |
| oddity | rising | |
| oddness | rising | |
| unfamiliarity | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 5 letters
- quirk1
- 6 letters
- oddity3
- 7 letters
- anomaly4, oddness
- 8 letters
- enormity4, deviancy4, crotchet
- 9 letters
- weirdness2, queerness, alienness, abnormity
- 10 letters
- aberration4, quirkiness
- 11 letters
- singularity5, abnormality5, peculiarity6, foreignness, unusualness, curiousness
- 12 letters
- eccentricity5, irregularity6, freakishness
- 13 letters
- unfamiliarity6, anomalousness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (oddity3 = 3 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- étrangeté
- Italiano
- stranezza
- Español
- extrañeza
- Deutsch
- Merkwürdigkeit