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oddity [ˈɒdɪtɪ] n pl -ties
1. an odd person or thing 2. an odd quality or characteristic 3. the condition of being odd ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
oddity noun 1. misfit, eccentric, crank (informal), nut (slang), maverick, flake (slang, chiefly U.S.), oddball (informal), loose cannon, nonconformist, odd man out, wacko (slang), screwball (slang, chiefly U.S. & Canad.), card (informal), fish out of water, square peg (in a round hole) (informal), odd fish (Brit. informal), odd bird (informal), rara avis, weirdo or weirdie (informal) He's a bit of an oddity, but quite harmless. 2. anomaly, exception, curiosity, abnormality, rarity, departure, deviation His book remains something of an oddity. 3. strangeness, abnormality, peculiarity, eccentricity, weirdness, singularity, incongruity, oddness, unconventionality, queerness, unnaturalness, bizarreness, freakishness, extraordinariness, outlandishness I was struck by the oddity of this question. 4. irregularity, phenomenon, anomaly, freak, abnormality, rarity, quirk, eccentricity, kink, peculiarity, idiosyncrasy, singularity, unorthodoxy, unconventionality the oddities of the Welsh legal system Translations oddity [ˈɒdɪti] n (= odd characteristic) → bizarrerie f odd-job man [ˌɒdˈdʒɒbmæn] n → homme m à tout faire odd jobs npl → travaux mpl divers odd-looking [ˈɒdlʊkɪŋ] adj [person, thing] → curieux/euse They were an odd-looking couple → Ils formaient un couple curieux. oddity n (= strangeness) (of person) → Wunderlichkeit f, → Absonderlichkeit f, → Eigenartigkeit f; (= strangeness: of thing) → Ausgefallenheit f (= odd person) → komischer Kauz or Vogel; (who doesn’t fit) → Kuriosität f; (= odd thing) → Kuriosität f How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| This barber, who went by the name of Little Benjamin, was a fellow of great oddity and humour, which had frequently let him into small inconveniencies, such as slaps in the face, kicks in the breech, broken bones, &c. That's the fifth oddity hatched in my ward since noon. Sir Francis Cromarty had observed the oddity of his travelling companion--although the only opportunity he had for studying him had been while he was dealing the cards, and between two rubbers--and questioned himself whether a human heart really beat beneath this cold exterior, and whether Phileas Fogg had any sense of the beauties of nature. |
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