Strangeness vs Abnormal - What's the difference?
strangeness | abnormal |
(uncountable) The state or quality of being strange, odd or weird.
(countable) The product or result of being strange.
(physics) one of the quantum numbers of subatomic particles that depends upon the relative number of strange quarks and anti-strange quarks
Not conforming to rule or system; deviating from the usual or normal type.
* 1899 , (Arthur Conan Doyle), A Duet , ch. 6:
Of or pertaining to that which is abnormal, in particular, behaviour that deviates from norms of social propriety or accepted standards of mental health.
* 1904 , (Jack London), The Sea Wolf , ch. 23:
As nouns the difference between strangeness and abnormal
is that strangeness is (uncountable) the state or quality of being strange, odd or weird while abnormal is a person or object that is not normal.As an adjective abnormal is
not conforming to rule or system; deviating from the usual or normal type .strangeness
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Noun
(wikipedia strangeness) (en-noun)Synonyms
* (condition of being strange) oddity, weirdnessabnormal
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Alternative forms
* anormal * (obsolete) abnormousAdjective
(en adjective)- And then after an abnormal meal, which was either a very late breakfast or a very early lunch, they drove on to Victoria Station.
- Furuseth was right; I was abnormal , an "emotionless monster," a strange bookish creature, capable of pleasuring in sensations only of the mind.