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oddity

noun

1 oddity

Eccentricity that is not easily explained.

synonym: oddness.

Roget 5: intrinsicality, inbeing, inherence, inhesion; subjectiveness; ego; egohood; essence, noumenon; essentialness etc. adj.; essential part, quintessence, ... show more

Roget 503: disordered reason, disordered intellect; diseased mind, unsound mind, abnormal mind; derangement, unsoundness; psychosis; neurosis; cognitive disorder; affective disorder.    insanity, lunacy; madness ... show more

Roget 853: ridiculousness etc. adj.; comicality, oddity etc. adj.; extravagance, drollery.    farce, comedy; burlesque etc. (ridicule) ... show more

Roget 857: laughingstock, jestingstock, gazingstock; butt, game, fair game; April fool etc. (dupe) 547.    original, oddity; queer fish, odd fish; ... show more

Polish: kuriozalność

2 oddity

A strange attitude or habit.

synonyms: crotchet, queerness, quirk, quirkiness.

Dutch: eigenzinnigheid, rariteit, vreemd geval, eigenaardigheid, hebbelijkheid, idiosyncrasie
Polish: ekstrawaganckość, dziwactwo, ekscentryzm, ekstrawagancja, ekscentryczność

3 oddity

Something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting.

synonyms: curio, curiosity, oddment, peculiarity, rarity.

Roget 83: nonconformity etc. 82; unconformity, disconformity; unconventionality, informality, abnormity, abnormality, anomaly; anomalousness etc. adj.; exception, ... show more

Dutch: curiositeit, curiosum, rara avis, rariteit, zeldzaamheid
Polish: cacko, cudo


Moby thesaurus: aberration, abnormality, absurdity, alien, anomalousness, anomaly, anticness, bizarreness, bizarrerie, card, case, character, conceit, conversation piece, crackpot, crackpotism, crank, crankiness, crankism, crotchet ... show more.

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