oddity English

Meaning oddity meaning

What does oddity mean?

Definitions in simple English

oddity Noun

— Something odd or unusual That's quite an oddity you have there. I think people would pay to see something that rare.

oddity

— noun eccentricity that is not easily explained

— noun a strange attitude or habit

— noun (= curio) something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting

Synonyms oddity synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as oddity?

oddity English » English

peculiarity

strangeness

eccentricity

singularness

singularity

queerness

uniqueness

quirkiness

quirk

outlandishness

oddness

irregularity

crotchet

wonder

weirdness

rarity

queer fish

quaintness

oddment

eeriness

curiosity

curio

crankiness

crank

whimsy

whim

vagary

unexpected happening

singleness

quip

pretentiousness

paradoxicalness

otherness

original

freak

extravagance

exoticness

embellishment

eccentric

curiousness

anomaly

abnormality

Examples oddity examples

How do I use oddity in a sentence?

Movie subtitles

That's all right, there's an advantage in being an oddity.

What an oddity you are, Mr. Smith.

No. It's just an oddity of mine.

Certainly not the last oddity in this environment.

But a geological oddity, to say the least.

Just one oddity.

Billy, you are dealing with the oddity of time travel with the greatest of ease.

AT FEELEY'S FANTASTIC FAIRWAY OF FREAKS- THE MOST ALARMING AND UNUSUAL ODDITY EVER TO BE PUT ON DISPLAY ANYWHERE, ANYTIME, ANYPLACE.

She is, if I may speak frankly, somewhat of a medical oddity.

Cars were an oddity used only for racing.

The oddity of our happy little enclave is lost on no one.

He must be an oddity, don't you think?

ALL RIGHT, SO THIS KID IS A HUMAN ODDITY. WOULD SOMEBODY TELL ME WHY ANYONE WOULD GO TO SUCH GREAT LENGTHS TO KILL HIM?

The oddity of the situation is incredible.

Yet a thief, who steals an oddity like a musical box, passes up one worth five hundred pounds for one of almost no value at all.

Accent, timbre, some oddity of phrasing? Anything?

It's just an oddity of mine.

Or any kind of epidermal oddity.

What occupational oddity is shared by Henry Aaron, Willie Mays and Babe Ruth?

She might like that you're this bizarre, little oddity.

So this kid is a human oddity.

Ain't this place a geographical oddity, two weeks from everywhere.

Just learned a long time ago when something doesn't add up, you seek out the oddity.

You're an oddity, six. I have these crazy thoughts.

What an oddity.

Mr. Fry? Mama says you're quite the oddity.

I'm an oddity?

This is my show and for all my oddity, I'm more interested in what Aristotle thought about flies than some fatuous bint who presents morning television, and whether or not she was felt up by some other fatuous bint.

Well no, the oddity is actually that snakes don't respond to music at all.

But how astonishingly successful, for all its oddity, as you say.

But there was one oddity.

The first is an oddity concerning rope burns where the victims' hands were bound.

Well, that's the oddity.

Some folks seemed to think she was enough of an oddity. having a brain and getting in at Oxford.

News and current affairs

The final oddity of the ECB's stance concerns democratic governance.

Justice Stevens cited Telford Taylor, the chief prosecutor in Nuremberg, who made the same point about the oddity of conspiracy charges in international tribunals.

One can never have negative nominal interest rates (except through some oddity of taxes or regulations), since lenders would rather hold their cash than effectively pay borrowers.

Indeed, up until the 1967 Supreme Court ruling that struck down anti-miscegenation laws throughout the US, interracial marriages were an oddity even where they were legally allowed.