familiar vs strange

familiar

adj
  • Intimate or friendly. 

  • Of or pertaining to a family; familial. 

  • Known to one, or generally known; commonplace. 

  • Acquainted. 

noun
  • An attendant spirit, often in animal or demon form. 

  • The officer of the Inquisition who arrested suspected people. 

  • A member of a pope's or bishop's household. 

strange

adj
  • Outside of one's current relationship; unfamiliar. 

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

  • Having the quantum mechanical property of strangeness. 

  • Not belonging to one. 

  • 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 familiar and strange occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )