Meaning of ODDITY
| Pronunciation: | | 'âditee
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- [n] something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting
- [n] a strange attitude or habit
- [n] eccentricity that is not easily explained
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| | Synonyms: | | crotchet, curio, curiosity, oddment, oddness, peculiarity, queerness, quirk, quirkiness, rarity |
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| | See Also: | | collector's item, eccentricity, piece de resistance, showpiece, strangeness, stuff, sundries, sundry, unfamiliarity, whatchamacallit, whatsis | |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Related Terms: | | 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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