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Webster 1913 Edition

oddity

odd′i-ty

(ŏd′ĭ-ty̆)
,
Noun.
;
pl.
Oddities
(ŏd′ĭ-tĭz)
.
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
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Oddity

ODD'ITY

, n.
1.
Singularity; strangeness; as the oddity of dress, manners or shape; oddity of appearance.
2.
A singular person; in colloquial language. This man is an oddity.

Definition 2024

oddity

oddity

English

Noun

oddity ‎(plural oddities)

  1. An odd or strange thing or opinion.
    • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 1, in The Celebrity:
      In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned. But he had then none of the oddities and mannerisms which I hold to be inseparable from genius, and which struck my attention in after days when I came in contact with the Celebrity.
  2. A strange person; an oddball.
  3. Strangeness.

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