strangeness vs abnormality

abnormality vs strangeness

strangeness and abnormality both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
strangeness	Yes	No	No	No
abnormality	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, abnormality is a hyponym of strangeness; that is, abnormality is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than strangeness:

strangeness: unusualness as a consequence of not being well known
abnormality: marked strangeness as a consequence of being abnormal

Other hyponyms of strangeness include crotchet, oddity, queerness, quirk, quirkiness, eeriness, ghostliness, freakishness, singularity, bizarreness, outlandishness, weirdness, quaintness, eccentricity.

strangeness (noun)	abnormality (noun)
unusualness as a consequence of not being well known	behavior that breaches the rule or etiquette or custom or morality
the quality of being alien or not native	marked strangeness as a consequence of being abnormal
(physics) one of the six flavors of quark, the third lightest of all quarks	retardation sufficient to fall outside the normal range of intelligence
	an abnormal physical condition resulting from defective genes or developmental deficiencies

Difference between strangeness and abnormality

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