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Oddity

Oddity Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Oddity? [n] something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting [n] a strange attitude or habit [n] eccentricity that is not easily explained Synonyms \| Synonyms for Oddity: crotchet \| curio \| curiosity \| oddment \| oddness \| peculiarity \| queerness \| quirk \| quirkiness \| rarity Related Terms \| Find terms related to Oddity: aberration \| abnormality \| absurdity \| alien \| anomalousness \| anomaly \| anticness \| bizarreness \| bizarrerie \| card \| case \| character \| conceit \| conversation piece \| crackpot \| crackpotism \| crank \| crankiness \| crankism \| crotchet \| crotchetiness \| curio \| curiosity \| curiousness \| deformity \| deviancy \| deviation \| differentness \| distinctiveness \| divergence \| dottiness \| duck \| eccentric \| eccentricity \| erraticism \| erraticness \| exception \| extraordinariness \| fanatic \| fantasticality \| freak \| freakiness \| freakishness \| grotesqueness \| grotesquerie \| hermit \| hobo \| idiocrasy \| idiosyncrasy \| improbability \| incongruity \| incongruousness \| individuality \| irregularity \| kink \| kook \| kookiness \| lone wolf \| loner \| maggot \| malformation \| mannerism \| maverick \| meshuggenah \| misfit \| monstrosity \| monstrousness \| museum piece \| natural \| nonconformist \| nonconformity \| nonesuch \| nut \| odd fellow \| oddball \| oddness \| original \| outlandishness \| outsider \| pariah \| peculiarity \| phenomenon \| prodigiosity \| prodigy \| quaintness \| queer duck \| queer fish \| queer specimen \| queerness \| quip \| quirk \| quirkiness \| quiz \| rara avis \| rarity \| screwball \| singularity \| solitary \| spook \| strange thing \| strangeness \| teratism \| tramp \| trick \| twist \| type \| unconventionality \| unnaturalness \| unusualness \| weirdness \| weirdo \| whim \| whimsicality \| whimsy \| zealot \| zombie See Also \| collector's item \| eccentricity \| piece de resistance \| showpiece \| strangeness \| stuff \| sundries \| sundry \| unfamiliarity \| whatchamacallit \| whatsis Oddity In Webster's Dictionary \Odd"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Oddities}. 1. The quality or state of being odd; singularity; queerness; peculiarity; as, oddity of dress, manners, and the like. That infinitude of oddities in him. --Sterne. 2. That which is odd; as, a collection of oddities.

Oddity Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Oddity?

[n] something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting
[n] a strange attitude or habit
[n] eccentricity that is not easily explained

Oddity In Webster's Dictionary

\Odd"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Oddities}.
1. The quality or state of being odd; singularity; queerness;
   peculiarity; as, oddity of dress, manners, and the like.

         That infinitude of oddities in him.   --Sterne.

2. That which is odd; as, a collection of oddities.

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