Strānge'ness, n.

n. 1. The condition of being strange; foreignness. If I will obey the gospel, no distance of place, no strangeness of country, can make any man a stranger to me. Sprat. 2. Distance in behavior; reserve; coldness; forbidding manner. Will you not observe The strangeness of his altered countenance? Shak. 3. Remoteness from common manners or notions; uncouthness. Men worthier than himself Here tend the savage strangeness he puts on. Shak. 4. Alienation of mind; estrangement; mutual dislike. This might seem a means to continue a strangeness between the two nations. Bacon. 5. The power of exciting surprise and wonder; uncommonness that raises wonder by novelty; wonderfulness. This raised greater tumults in the hearts of men than the strangeness and seeming unreasonableness of all the former articles. South.