strange vs weird

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. 

weird

adj
  • Having an unusually strange character or behaviour. 

  • Deviating from the normal; bizarre. 

adv
  • In a strange manner. 

noun
  • Weirdness. 

  • That which comes to pass; a fact. 

  • A prediction. 

verb
  • To warn solemnly; adjure. 

  • To destine; doom; change by witchcraft or sorcery. 

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