About The Word Oddity

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Oddity

Oddity Meaning & Definition
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.

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