mundane vs strange

mundane

adj
  • Ordinary; not new. 

  • Worldly, earthly, profane, vulgar as opposed to heavenly. 

  • Pertaining to the Universe, cosmos or physical reality, as opposed to the spiritual world. 

  • Tedious; repetitive and boring. 

noun
  • An unremarkable, ordinary human being. 

  • A person considered to be "normal", part of the mainstream culture, outside the subculture, not part of the elite group. 

  • The world outside fandom; the normal, mainstream world. 

  • A person who is not a Satanist. 

strange

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

  • Outside of one's current relationship; unfamiliar. 

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