STRANGENESS, noun 1. Foreignness; the state of belonging to another country. If I will obey the gospel, no distance of place, no strangeness of country can make any man a stranger to me. 2. Distance in behavior; reserve; coldness; forbidding manner. Will you not observe the strangeness of his alterd countenance? 3. Remoteness from common manners or notions; uncouthness. Men worthier than himself here tend the savage strangeness he puts on. 4. Alienation of mind; estrangement; mutual dislike. This might seem a means to continue a strangeness between two nations. [This sense is obsolete or little used. 5. Wonderfulness; the power of exciting surprise and wonder; uncommonness that raises wonder by novelty. This raised greater tumults in the hearts of men than the strangeness and seeming unreasonableness of all the former articles.
Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary ↗ · public-domain · returned verbatim, no AI