Definition

Noun: 1. The quality of being strikingly odd, unusual, or strange: The state or characteristic of being bizarre, uncanny, or difficult to understand. 2. The quality of being supernatural or eerie: A characteristic suggesting something beyond the ordinary laws of nature; an unearthly or mysterious quality.

Examples

• The weirdness of the old house, with its crooked doors and whispering walls, kept most visitors away.
• I can't explain the weirdness I felt when I saw my own doppelgänger across the street.
• The film is celebrated for its surreal weirdness and dreamlike imagery.
• He shrugged off the social weirdness of the situation and continued with his presentation.

Advanced Usage

• "to add to the weirdness": to make a strange situation even stranger.
  • To add to the weirdness of the encounter, the cat suddenly began speaking perfect French.
• "a sense of weirdness": a feeling that something is odd or uncanny.
  • A profound sense of weirdness washed over her as she entered the seemingly empty, yet watched, room.

Variants and Related Words

• Weird (adj): Strikingly odd or unusual, especially in an unsettling way; suggesting the supernatural.
  • She had a weird dream about flying turtles.
• Weirdly (adv): In a strange or unusual manner.
  • The machine was weirdly silent.

Synonyms

• Strangeness: The quality of being unfamiliar or unexpected.
• Bizarreness: The quality of being very strange or unusual, often in a striking or amusing way.
• Oddity: The quality of being strange or peculiar.
• Uncanniness: A strange and mysterious quality, often causing unease.

Idioms and Phrases

• "Weirdness factor": The degree to which something is considered strange or unusual.
  • The movie's high weirdness factor made it a cult classic.

Noun

1. strikingly out of the ordinary