oddity

oddity
Synonyms and related words:
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

Moby Thesaurus. . 1996.

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  • Oddity EP — Oddity redirects here. For the dictionary definition, see Wiktionary:oddity. Oddity EP EP by Cold Released …   Wikipedia

  • oddity — odd i*ty ([o^]d [i^]*t[y^]), n.; pl. {Oddities} ([o^]d [i^]*t[i^]z). 1. The quality or state of being odd; singularity; queerness; peculiarity; as, oddity of dress, manners, and the like. [1913 Webster] That infinitude of oddities in him. Sterne …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • oddity — index exception (exclusion), irregularity, quirk (idiosyncrasy), speciality, specialty (distinctive mark) …   Law dictionary

  • oddity — (n.) 1713, odd characteristic or trait, a hybrid from ODD (Cf. odd) + ITY (Cf. ity). Meaning odd person is first recorded 1748 …   Etymology dictionary

  • oddity — ► NOUN (pl. oddities) 1) the quality of being strange. 2) a strange person or thing …   English terms dictionary

  • oddity — [äd′ə tē] n. 1. the state or quality of being odd; queerness; peculiarity; strangeness 2. pl. oddities an odd person or thing …   English World dictionary

  • oddity — [[t]ɒ̱dɪti[/t]] oddities 1) N COUNT An oddity is someone or something that is very strange. Losing my hair made me feel an oddity... Carlson noticed another oddity; his plant had bloomed twice. Syn: curiosity 2) N COUNT: usu the N of n The oddity …   English dictionary

  • oddity — UK [ˈɒdətɪ] / US [ˈɑdətɪ] noun Word forms oddity : singular oddity plural oddities 1) [countable] someone or something that seems strange or unusual In those days a working mother was regarded as a bit of an oddity. 2) [countable/uncountable] a… …   English dictionary

  • oddity — noun 1) she was regarded as a bit of an oddity Syn: eccentric, misfit, square peg in a round hole, maverick, nonconformist, odd one, rare bird, crank; informal character, oddball, weirdo, crackpot, nut, freak, screwball, kook, queer/odd fish …   Thesaurus of popular words

  • oddity — odd|i|ty [ˈɔdıti US ˈa: ] n plural oddities 1.) a strange or unusual person or thing ▪ In a class of 120 students there were four women including myself, and I still felt rather an oddity. 2.) [U and C] a strange quality in someone or something ▪ …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • oddity — odd|i|ty [ adəti ] noun 1. ) count someone or something that seems strange or unusual: In those days a working mother was regarded as something of an oddity. 2. ) count or uncount a strange or unusual quality in someone or something: the oddity… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

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