Synonyms for weirdness
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : weerd |
| Phonetic Transcription : wɪərd |
Top 10 synonyms for weirdness
- aberrance
- aberrancy
- aberration
- anomalism
- anomaly
- atypicalness
- deformity
- deviance
- deviancy
- deviation
- eccentricity
- esotericism
- esoterism
- exception
- exoticism
- extraordinariness
- fantasticality
- flaw
- foible
- foreignness
- freakishness
- hereticism
- idiocrasy
- indescribability
- irregularity
- kink
- nonconformity
- novelty
- oddness
- outlandishness
- preternaturalness
- queerness
- quirkiness
- singularity
- strangeness
- uncommonness
- unconventionality
- unnaturalness
- unorthodoxness
- unusualness
- waywardness
- weirdness
- whimsicality
- whimsicalness
Définition of weirdness
Origin :- Old English wyrd (n.) "fate, destiny," literally "that which comes," from Proto-Germanic *wurthis (cf. Old Saxon wurd, Old High German wurt "fate," Old Norse urðr "fate, one of the three Norns"), from PIE *wert- "to turn, wind," (cf. German werden, Old English weorðan "to become"), from root *wer- (3) "to turn, bend" (see versus). For sense development from "turning" to "becoming," cf. phrase turn into "become."
- The modern sense of weird developed from Middle English use of weird sisters for the three fates or Norns (in Germanic mythology), the goddesses who controlled human destiny. They were portrayed as odd or frightening in appearance, as in "Macbeth," which led to the adjectival meaning "odd-looking, uncanny," first recorded 1815.
- As in aberration : noun state of abnormality
- As in strangeness : noun unfamiliarity
- As in preternaturalness : noun abnormality
- As in quirkiness : noun eccentricity
- As in singularity : noun eccentricity
- As in unnaturalness : noun abnormality
- As in abnormality : noun being different from standard or norm
- As in eccentricity : noun bizarreness, unusualness
- I looked round, and a feeling of awe and weirdness crept over me.
- Extract from : « The First Violin » by Jessie Fothergill
- There wasn't any weirdness about the ship when I woke in the sunlight.
- Extract from : « Romance » by Joseph Conrad and F.M. Hueffer
- The unexpected wild vehemence and weirdness of it were striking in the extreme.
- Extract from : « Recollections » by David Christie Murray
- Awe and weirdness followed in the trail of that cannon ball of wind.
- Extract from : « The Riflemen of the Ohio » by Joseph A. Altsheler
- The changing lights added to the beauty and weirdness of the scene.
- Extract from : « Five Thousand Miles Underground » by Roy Rockwood
- The sing-song calls of the players added to the weirdness of the scene.
- Extract from : « The Pony Rider Boys in New Mexico » by Frank Gee Patchin
- Whatever the weirdness and adventure, Jerome was getting nowhere.
- Extract from : « The Blind Spot » by Austin Hall
- There was weirdness in its colour, almost cabalistic—a call out of the occult.
- Extract from : « The Blind Spot » by Austin Hall
- Perhaps it was the weirdness and the tremulous intoxication of the music.
- Extract from : « The Blind Spot » by Austin Hall
- If he were aware of the weirdness of their situation no sign betrayed it.
- Extract from : « The Woman from Outside » by Hulbert Footner
Antonyms for weirdness
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