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My dad's gay experiences really had a very positive influence on me and my straight relationships - how to better accept all the weirdness and ambiguity and ups and downs and paradoxes. I knew from the beginning I was writing about love.
Mike Mills

Meaning of "weirdness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF WEIRDNESS

weirdness  [ˈwɪədnɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WEIRDNESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Weirdness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES WEIRDNESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Weird

Weird may refer to: ▪ Weird, a fictional DC Comics character ▪ "Weird", 1998 ▪ "Weird" ▪ "Weird Al" Yankovic, American musician and parodist ▪ Weird fiction, speculative literature written in the late 19th and early 20th century ▪ Weird number, a natural number that is abundant but not semiperfect ▪ The Weird, a 2012 anthology of weird fiction ▪ Weird, a series of travel guides ▪ "Weird", a song from Hilary Duff's Hilary Duff ▪ WEIRD, an acronym for "Western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic", cultural identifier of psychology test subjects: See Psychology#Systemic bias...

Definition of weirdness in the English dictionary

The definition of weirdness in the dictionary is bizarre quality.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH WEIRDNESS


assuredness
əˈʃʊədnɪs
awkwardness
ˈɔːkwədnɪs
backwardness
ˈbækwədnɪs
blindness
ˈblaɪndnɪs
fondness
ˈfɒndnɪs
forwardness
ˈfɔːwədnɪs
goodness
ˈɡʊdnɪs
haphazardness
ˌhæpˈhæzədnɪs
hardness
ˈhɑːdnɪs
kindness
ˈkaɪndnɪs
loudness
ˈlaʊdnɪs
madness
ˈmædnɪs
preparedness
prɪˈpɛərɪdnɪs
redness
ˈrɛdnɪs
sadness
ˈsædnɪs
straightforwardness
ˌstreɪtˈfɔːwədnɪs
tiredness
ˈtaɪədnɪs
unpreparedness
ˌʌnprɪˈpeədnɪs
waywardness
ˈweɪwədnɪs
wickedness
ˈwɪkɪdnɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WEIRDNESS

weighty
Weihai
Weihaiwei
Weil
Weil´s disease
Weill
Weimar
Weimar Republic
Weimaraner
Weinberg
weir
weird
weird out
weird sisters
weirdie
weirdly
weirdo
weirdy
weisenheimer

WORDS THAT END LIKE WEIRDNESS

baldness
blandness
boundedness
business
centeredness
coldness
color blindness
connectedness
frowardness
giftedness
gladness
indebtedness
light-headedness
mindedness
nakedness
narrow-mindedness
night blindness
oddness
relatedness
soundness
stupidness

Synonyms and antonyms of weirdness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «weirdness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WEIRDNESS

Find out the translation of weirdness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of weirdness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «weirdness» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

怪事
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

rarezas
570 millions of speakers

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weirdness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

weirdness
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

غرابة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

странность
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

esquisitice
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

weirdness
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

étrangeté
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kekasaran
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Seltsamkeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

奇異さ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

이상한 것들
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kepenak
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

weirdness
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

weirdness
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

विचित्रपणा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

acayiplik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

stranezze
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

niesamowitość
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

дивина
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ciudățenie
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

παραξενιά
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vreemd
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

weirdness
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

weirdness
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of weirdness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WEIRDNESS»

The term «weirdness» is quite widely used and occupies the 42.867 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WEIRDNESS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about weirdness

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10 QUOTES WITH «WEIRDNESS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word weirdness.
1
Paul Feig
I love funny people, and when I'm with funny people, or people who are amusing in their weirdness, I love it. Because that to me is funny, as opposed to someone who stops and says, 'Hey let me tell you a joke.'
2
Jonathan Franzen
When I finally gave up any hope of doing anything representative of the American family, I actually seemed to have tapped into other people's weirdness in that way.
3
Alison Gopnik
What happens when children reach puberty earlier and adulthood later? The answer is: a good deal of teenage weirdness.
4
Carl Hiaasen
I think in the old days, the nexus of weirdness ran through Southern California, and to a degree New York City. I think it's changed so that every bizarre story in the country now has a Florida connection. I don't know why, except it must be some inversion of magnetic poles or something.
5
Mike Mills
My dad's gay experiences really had a very positive influence on me and my straight relationships - how to better accept all the weirdness and ambiguity and ups and downs and paradoxes. I knew from the beginning I was writing about love.
6
Aaron D. O'Connell
We talk about quantum weirdness and things being in two places at once, but it all involves atoms and molecules, stuff we don't normally interact with.
7
Sara Paxton
My family has always supported me completely and kept me grounded. I never got lost in child Hollywood actor weirdness.
8
David Remnick
The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop - is to pause - and when the caravan goes away, that's when this stuff comes.
9
Karen Russell
Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive.
10
Hunter S. Thompson
Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WEIRDNESS»

Discover the use of weirdness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to weirdness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Weirdness: A Novel
"This book is wild.
Jeremy P. Bushnell, 2014
2
Global Weirdness: Severe Storms, Deadly Heat Waves, ...
With black-and-white images interspersed throughout. From the Hardcover edition.
Climate Central, 2012
3
Where Does the Weirdness Go?: Why Quantum Mechanics Is ...
In the world of quantum mechanics, uncertainty and ambiguity become not just unavoidable, but essential ingredients of science—a development so disturbing that to Einstein ”it was as if God were playing dice with the universe.” And ...
David Lindley, 2008
4
Why Your Weirdness Is Wonderful: Embrace Your Quirks and ...
In Why Your Weirdness Is Wonderful, author and certified life coach Laurie Wallin reveals strategies for anyone struggling to find a calling or to find and live their dream.
Laurie Wallin, 2014
5
Skies of Fury: Weather Weirdness Around the World
Explains the science between weird weather events and patterns around the world, including ball lightning, halos, flash floods, rogue waves, and heat bursts
Patricia Barnes-Svarney, Thomas E Svarney, 1999
6
Are You Normal ? 2: More Than 100 Questions That Will Test ...
A second collection of sidesplitting questions and answers invites youngsters to rank themselves on the "weird-o-meter" for such distinguishing characteristics as getting grounded, having longer second toes and loving school lunches.
Mark Shulman, 2013
7
Oval Office Occult: True Stories of White House Weirdness
--Bill Fawcett, author of Oval Office Oddities The Discovery Channel's A Haunting meets the History Channel's The Presidents inside this collection of strange-but-true tales of White House weirdness.
Thomsen, Brian M., 2009
8
Mates, Mysteries and Pretty Weird Weirdness
There's always something going on in Ally's World!
Karen McCombie, 2011
9
Strange Wisconsin: More Badger State Weirdness
When it coms to weird, Wisconsin's got it! And nobody is better at telling the bizarre stories of the state's odd side than best-selling author and paranormal authority Linda Godfrey.
Linda S. Godfrey, 2007
10
Elvis in the UFO and other weirdness:
In this book, UFO writer and filmmaker Jerry Williams sheds the UFO connection between Elvis Presley and President Nixon.
Jerry Williams, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WEIRDNESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term weirdness is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Weirdness aboard the USS Cowpens
By Thomas E. RicksThomas E. Ricks covered the U.S. military for the Washington Post from 2000 through 2008. He can be reached at ... «Foreign Policy, Jul 15»
2
Felicia Day Tells VidCon: 'Embrace Your Weirdness'
"Embrace your weirdness, because that's what makes you special in life … the more you can love all the weirdness inside you, the more you'll succeed." «People Magazine, Jul 15»
3
Transgender inclusion at the public loos worth a little weirdness
Palmerston North seems to have captured its own corner of the Zeitgeist as the city council prepares to place gender-neutral signs on its public loos. «Manawatu Standard, Jul 15»
4
Monday Evening Weirdness: The MacGyver Dance of Joy
As I celebrate a brief break visiting family in Undisclosed Location USA, I am full of joy, thus reminding me of the MacGyver Dance of Joy. «Palm Beach Post, Jul 15»
5
Ed Sheeran Gives Inspiring, Irreverent Speech on Stuttering …
Even if you have quirks and weirdness, you shouldn't be worried about that," he told the younger attendees. "The people I went to school with that were the most ... «Billboard, Jun 15»
6
Explore weirdness with these 7 cool mobile apps
Go ahead and download and experience weirdness. Cuddlr: A location-based social networking app called Cuddly lets you find people in your area to cuddle ... «Zee News, Jun 15»
7
To these celebs, weirdness is money in the bank
Josh Groban has a majestic voice that soars to the top of the adult contemporary music charts. He also embraces weirdness at every turn. The singer appeared ... «Vancouver Sun, Apr 15»
8
Tapping the weirdness of water to get enough to drink
I AM fascinated by water. We can all agree that a liquid that occupies 70 per cent of Earth's surface and two-thirds of our body is very important. However, when I ... «New Scientist, Apr 15»
9
Johnson: Word origins
Moving to a different kind of weirdness, many an English-speaking Christian has wondered why the darkest day of the Holy Week, on which Jesus suffered and ... «The Economist, Apr 15»
10
The Reality of Quantum Weirdness
We should be careful to recognize that the weirdness of the quantum world does not directly imply the same kind of weirdness in the world of everyday ... «New York Times, Feb 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Weirdness [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/weirdness>. May 2024 ».
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