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strangeness|ˈstreɪn(d)ʒnɪs|
[-ness.]
1. a. The quality of being strange, foreign, unfamiliar, uncommon, unusual, extraordinary, etc. (see the adj.).
c1386Chaucer Pars. T. ⁋340 That precious clothyng is cowpable..for his strangenesse and degisynesse. c1440Promp. Parv. 479/1 Strawngenesse, extraneitas. 1531Elyot Gov. iii. xviii, For the straungenesse of it, I will reherce a notable historie. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. i. 37 b, You must geue them but little at once, lest the strangenesse of the foode [L. novitas pabuli] hurt them. 1612Bacon Ess., Beauty (Arb.) 210 There is no excellent beauty, that hath not some strangenesse in the proportions. 1638Wilkins Discov. World in Moon i. i. 1 The strangenesse of this opinion is no sufficient reason why it should be rejected. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 567 Novelty is different from strangeness; one is engaging, the other unpleasant. 1847James Convict iii, The first strangeness of new arrival wore off with the two guests. 1860Tyndall Glac. ii. xvii. 316 There is a strangeness about the place which repels you. 1861Dickens Lett. (1880) II. 152 This did not tend to cheer the strangeness I felt. 1885Manch. Exam. 20 Mar. 4/7 Witnesses..declared that her strangeness of manner was subsequent to the marriage.
b. quasi-concr. With pl.: Something strange; a strange circumstance, object, event, or the like. † Without pl.: Strange matter, strange stuff.
a1566R. Edwards Damon & Pithias (facs.) B iv, Some strangenesse there is, that breedeth this musinge. 1568Hacket tr. Thevet's New found World xxii. 36 Certaine others being ignorant doe write yet more strangenesse. 1604E. G[rimstone] tr. Acosta's Hist. Indies iii. xxi. 186 For that it is rare and extraordinarie to see a Countrie where it never raines nor thunders; men desire naturally to know the cause of this strangenes. 1651Jer. Taylor Serm. i. vii. 83 New accidents and strangenesses of Providence. 1804Coleridge Lit. Rem. (1836) II. 414 Fond of the curious, and a hunter of oddities and strangenesses. 1883Abp. Benson in Standard 28 June 2/3 All their teaching would have a substantial basis and staple, instead of excitement and strangenesses, which ended where they began.
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a. Absence of friendly feeling or relations; discouraging or uncomplying attitude towards others; coldness, aloofness. Obs.
c1386Chaucer Shipman's T. 386 Ye han maad a manere straungenesse Bitwixen me and my cosyn daun Iohn. c1400Rom. Rose 3611 Nor straungenesse was in him sene, No more than he ne had wrathed bene. 1470–85Malory Arthur vii. xix. 242 Allas faire lady..I haue not deserued that ye shold shewe me this straungenes. 1540–1Elyot Image Gov. (1556) 25 b, Changyng affabilitee into straungenesse and stately countenance. 1575Turberv. Falconrie 129 Vntill..shee be familiar with the man without any straungenesse or coynesse. 1607Chapman Bussy d'Ambois ii. ii. 192 Alas, I fear my strangeness will retire him. 1669R. Montagu in Buccleuch MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm.) I. 452 The King here lives at so much distance and strangeness with me. 1718Hickes & Nelson J. Kettlewell i. viii. 30 Some strangeness had..intervened betwixt him and his Old Friends. 1752Johnson Rambler No. 194 ⁋2 He practises the stare of strangeness, and the smile of condescension. 1766C. Beatty Tour (1768) 47 All anger and strangeness of mind might be for ever done away.
†b. to make strangeness: to show oneself unfriendly or uncomplying. Obs.
c1407Lydg. Reson & Sens. 4829 Ther was no wight that sayde nay Nor made thoo no straungenesse, For the porter ydelnesse Lete hym in and that in hast. a1513Fabyan Chron. v. cxxxiv. (1811) 118 Where straungenesse was made by the ruler of yt hous for the receyte of those relykes, tyll a myracle or dyuyne token there was shewyd.
3. Particle Physics. A quantized property of hadrons, now attributed to the s quark, that is conserved in strong and electromagnetic interactions but not in weak ones and is represented by a quantum number S equal to the hypercharge of a particle minus its baryon numbers.
1956M. Gell-Mann in Nuovo Cimento IV. Suppl. 852 Since we have S = 0 for ordinary particles and S ≠ 0 for ‘strange’ ones we refer to S as ‘strangeness’. 1960New Scientist 5 May 1126/2 Like electric charge, the total magnitude of strangeness remains constant in a nuclear process. Not so, however, for the decay phenomena... Decay forces violate strangeness-conservation. 1963S. Tolansky Introd. Atomic Physics (ed. 5) xxiii. 397 Whilst the strangeness number seems to play a basic part in the baryon reactions it does not operate in the base of the leptons... The concept of isospin is hardly appropriate to the leptons and with this falls away the significance of strangeness too. 1965H. Muirhead Physics of Elementary Particles ix. 396 The classification of particles using the hypercharge quantum number is more economical in numbers than one involving strangeness. 1972[see hypercharge]. 1981Sci. Amer. June 57/1 Strangeness conservation is now understood to be not a fundamental principle like energy conservation..but a consequence of the detailed theory of the strong interactions. |