Strangeness Definition
strānjnĭs
noun
The state or quality of being strange.
Webster's New World
A property of quarks and certain other elementary particles that explains the longer lifetimes of these particles and is expressed as a quantum number with −1 meaning a particle (strange particle) has strangeness and 0 meaning a particle does not have strangeness.
Webster's New World
The quantum number represented by this property, equal to the difference between the number of strange antiquarks and the number of strange quarks.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
- curiousness
- foreignness
- unfamiliarity
- fantasticality
- eccentricity
- feeling of newness
- unfamiliar surroundings
- strange nature
- unaccustomed quality
- sense of being alien
- esoterism
- esotericism
- indescribability
- remoteness
- weirdness
Antonyms:
- familiarity
- acquaintanceship
- homelike quality
Other Word Forms of Strangeness
Noun
Singular:
strangeness
Plural:
strangenessesOrigin of Strangeness
-
From strange +"Ž -ness.
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