Unusual or hard to understand; not familiar or expected.
From Old French “estrange,” from Latin “extraneus,” meaning foreign or from outside. It originally meant something or someone foreign before shifting to anything unfamiliar or odd.
“Strange” literally comes from the idea of ‘from outside’—a stranger was just someone from somewhere else. Our brains often label new things as ‘strange’ before we’ve even given them a fair chance.
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