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Strangeness

The state or quality of being strange (in any sense of the adjective).

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Abnormality 76% connected

The state or quality of being abnormal; variation; irregularity.

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Alienage 76% connected

The state or legal condition of being an alien.

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Alienism 76% connected

The status or legal condition of an alien; alienage.

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Crotchet 76% connected

A forked support; a crotch.

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Eccentricity 76% connected

The state of being eccentric; deviation from the customary line of conduct; oddity.

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Exoticism 76% connected

The state of being exotic; also, anything foreign, as a word or idiom; an exotic.

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Ghostliness 76% connected

The quality of being ghostly.

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Oddity 76% connected

The quality or state of being odd; singularity; queerness; peculiarity; as, oddity of dress, manners, and the like.

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Quaintness 76% connected

The quality of being quaint.

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Queerness 76% connected

The quality or state of being queer.

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Quirk 76% connected

A sudden turn; a starting from the point or line; hence, an artful evasion or subterfuge; a shift; a quibble; as, the quirks of a pettifogger.

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Singularity 76% connected

The quality or state of being singular; some character or quality of a thing by which it is distinguished from all, or from most, others; peculiarity.

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Weirdness 76% connected

The quality or state of being weird.

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Flavor 76% connected

That quality of anything which affects the smell; odor; fragrances; as, the flavor of a rose.

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Flavour 76% connected

(physics) the six kinds of quarks

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Quality 76% connected

The condition of being of such and such a sort as distinguished from others; nature or character relatively considered, as of goods; character; sort;…

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Foreign 74% connected

Outside; extraneous; separated; alien; as, a foreign country; a foreign government.

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Foreign 74% connected

Outside; extraneous; separated; alien; as, a foreign country; a foreign government.

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Foreign 66% connected

Outside; extraneous; separated; alien; as, a foreign country; a foreign government.

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Foreign 66% connected

Outside; extraneous; separated; alien; as, a foreign country; a foreign government.

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Strange 66% connected

Belonging to another country; foreign.

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Strange 66% connected

Belonging to another country; foreign.

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Curiousness 92% connected

Carefulness; painstaking.

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Foreignness 92% connected

The quality of being foreign; remoteness; want of relation or appropriateness.

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Familiarity 94% connected

The state of being familiar; intimate and frequent converse, or association; unconstrained intercourse; freedom from ceremony and constraint; intimac…

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Familiarity 94% connected

The state of being familiar; intimate and frequent converse, or association; unconstrained intercourse; freedom from ceremony and constraint; intimac…

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