strangeness
noun
strange·ness
ˈstrānj-nəs 
1
: the quality or state of being strange
2
: the flavor characterizing a strange quark
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Which isn’t to say this strangeness is entirely absent from The City and Its Uncertain Walls.
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Bailey Trela, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
To write well is to name pain with beauty and strangeness.
—Kanya Kanchana, Longreads, 27 June 2024
The series advertises itself as a close look at a big figure—McMahon, in all his muscular strangeness.
—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024
The traveler is often captive to the slow-moving, and the marvelous, and the memorable, in strangeness.
—Paul Theroux, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Oct. 2024
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Bailey Trela, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
To write well is to name pain with beauty and strangeness.
—Kanya Kanchana, Longreads, 27 June 2024
The series advertises itself as a close look at a big figure—McMahon, in all his muscular strangeness.
—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024
The traveler is often captive to the slow-moving, and the marvelous, and the memorable, in strangeness.
—Paul Theroux, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Oct. 2024
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“Strangeness.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/strangeness. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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