Synonyms for oddity
ˈɒd ɪ tiodd·i·ty

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1. odditynoun

   Synonyms:
   oddball

2. odditynoun

   An odd or strange thing.

   Synonyms:
   oddball

3. odditynoun

   A strange person; an oddball.

   Synonyms:
   oddball

4. odditynoun

   strangeness

   Synonyms:
   oddball

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1. oddity, oddnessnoun

   eccentricity that is not easily explained

   Synonyms:
   oddness, quirkiness, crotchet, curiosity, peculiarity, queerness, curio, oddment, quirk, rarity

2. oddity, queerness, quirk, quirkiness, crotchetnoun

   a strange attitude or habit

   Synonyms:
   rarity, quarter note, homoeroticism, gayness, curio, hook, oddness, curiosity, quirkiness, homosexuality, queerness, crotchet, peculiarity, oddment, quirk, homosexualism

3. curio, curiosity, oddity, oddment, peculiarity, raritynoun

   something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting

   Synonyms:
   rarity, tenuity, remainder, wonder, end, distinguishing characteristic, distinctiveness, rareness, curio, oddness, specialty, curiosity, quirkiness, low density, queerness, crotchet, specialness, distinctive feature, remnant, peculiarity, oddment, infrequency, quirk, speciality

Matched Categories

1. • Eccentricity
   • Strangeness

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. odditynoun

   Synonyms:
   singularity, strangeness, queerness

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1. odditynoun

   Synonyms:
   oddness, singularity, curiosity, nondescript, marvel, wonder

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1. List of paraphrases for "oddity":

   uniqueness, singularity

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How to use oddity in a sentence?

1. Joey Ciaramitaro:

   Some people really love the idea of sending it back to sea because it's such a strange oddity, and I don't think there's a right or wrong answer. I think maybe the wrong answer would be to just boil it up and treat it like any other lobster.

2. Anastasios Tzanidakis:

   This was a serendipitous discovery, if we had been a few years off, we would’ve missed it. It also indicates that these types of binaries might be much more common. If so, we need to come up with theories about how this type of pairing even arose. It’s definitely an oddity, but it might be much more common than anyone has appreciated.

3. Alba Pasini:

   The oddity of this case is represented by the rarity of these findings ; whether the two evidences are somehow linked or not, it's been a truly lucky event to find them on the same individual.

4. Hal Buell:

   He came alongside the stage and he put his camera on stage ... and he kind of blindly shot the picture, it's one of those vignettes ... an oddity that caught the eye of the editors.