ODDITY DEFINITIONS - 8 definitions found
oddity n 1: eccentricity that is not easily explained [syn: oddity, oddness] 2: a strange attitude or habit [syn: oddity, queerness, quirk, quirkiness, crotchet] 3: something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting [syn: curio, curiosity, oddity, oddment, peculiarity, rarity] Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) oddity noun (plural -ties) Date: 1713 1. an odd person, thing, event, or trait 2. the quality or state of being odd Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Oddity \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. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms oddity n. Singularity, strangeness, queerness. English Explanatory Dictionary (Synonyms) oddity ˈɔdɪtɪ n. 1 peculiarity, strangeness, unnaturalness, curiousness, incongruity, incongruousness, eccentricity, outlandishness, extraordinariness, unconventionality, bizarreness, weirdness, queerness, oddness, unusualness, individuality, singularity, distinctiveness, anomalousness, anomaly, Colloq kinkiness, US and Canadian kookiness: What caught my attention was the oddity of the clothes worn by the students. 2 peculiarity, curiosity, rarity, freak, original, phenomenon, character, eccentric, nonconformist, fish out of water, odd bird, rara avis, misfit, square peg in a round hole, maverick, Colloq card, crank, weirdie or weirdo, oner, Brit odd fish, US and Canadian kook, oddball, screwball: The townspeople thought Albert an oddity, but we knew he was a genius. 3 peculiarity, irregularity, anomaly, idiosyncrasy, eccentricity, deviation, quirk, mannerism, twist, kink, crotchet: I suppose people all have their own oddities when it comes to food. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 116 Moby Thesaurus words for "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 |
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