national vs strange

national

adj
  • Belonging to or characteristic of a specific nation or country, as opposed to others. 

  • Pertaining to a nation or country, especially as a whole; affecting, shared by, or existing throughout all of a nation. 

noun
  • A subject of a nation. 

  • A tournament in which participants from all over the nation compete. 

  • A national newspaper. 

strange

adj
  • Not belonging to one. 

  • Outside of one's current relationship; unfamiliar. 

  • Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary. 

  • Having the quantum mechanical property of strangeness. 

  • Unfamiliar, not yet part of one's experience. 

  • Of an attractor: having a fractal structure. 

noun
  • Sex outside of one's current relationship. 

How often have the words national and strange occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )