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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Despite the strangeness of it all, something clicked.
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Tammy Ljungblad, Kansas City Star, 21 Mar. 2025
This was the norm — this kind of coldness, this kind of strangeness.
—Jennifer Maas, Variety, 7 Mar. 2025
But for all its delightful strangeness, Groundhog Day is also a rarity among American holidays.
—Avery Keatley, NPR, 1 Feb. 2025
Relegated in their time to Oscar-night footnotes, they have long since been recognized as his towering twin peaks—cinematic effusions of a dark, visionary, and fundamentally inimitable strangeness, against which the sheen of even a good Oscars ceremony pales.
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
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Tammy Ljungblad, Kansas City Star, 21 Mar. 2025
This was the norm — this kind of coldness, this kind of strangeness.
—Jennifer Maas, Variety, 7 Mar. 2025
But for all its delightful strangeness, Groundhog Day is also a rarity among American holidays.
—Avery Keatley, NPR, 1 Feb. 2025
Relegated in their time to Oscar-night footnotes, they have long since been recognized as his towering twin peaks—cinematic effusions of a dark, visionary, and fundamentally inimitable strangeness, against which the sheen of even a good Oscars ceremony pales.
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
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“Strangeness.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/strangeness. Accessed 28 Mar. 2025.
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