a property of certain elementary particles, characterized by a quantum number (strangeness number) conserved in strong and electromagnetic but not in weak interactions. It is associated with the presence of strange quarks
strangeness in American English
(ˈstreɪndʒnɪs)
noun
1.
the state or quality of being strange
2. Particle Physics
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
Examples of 'strangeness' in a sentence
strangeness
This production captures far too little of that richness and strangeness.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
This was the strangeness of the place - that so much music had emerged from so small an area.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
He is at his best in lyrical descriptions of the sheer strangeness of places his heroes encountered and how they made sense of the incomprehensible.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Such poems can be new, one might say, because the vicissitudes and the strangeness of life are really inexhaustible.
The Times Literary Supplement (2008)
We soon see that the success of Zero History comes from its celebration of the sheer strangeness of the present day.
The Times Literary Supplement (2010)
Synonyms of 'strangeness'
oddity, abnormality, peculiarity, weirdness
More Synonyms of strangeness
(noun)
the breathy strangeness of the music
Synonyms
oddity
I was struck by the oddity of this question.
abnormality
Further scans are required to confirm any abnormality.
peculiarity
the peculiarity of her behaviour
weirdness
unfamiliarity
unexpectedness
bizarreness
unusualness
freakishness
outlandishness
curiousness
Additional synonyms
in the sense of abnormality
Further scans are required to confirm any abnormality.