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Oddity   /ˈɑdəti/   Listen
noun
oddity  n.  (pl. oddities)  
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."
2.
That which is odd; as, a collection of oddities.





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"Oddity" Quotes from Famous Books



... may be he likes you for being so. He is odd, you know; but his oddity never troubles me." And she resumed her sewing ...
— The Morgesons • Elizabeth Stoddard
... eat nothin' much between meals. See you've been buyin' some of the old cap'n's pictures. He's a oddity, but there's gold on that island of his, ...
— Isle o' Dreams • Frederick F. Moore
... of voice that gives the impression of being meant like a bird's wooing for an audience near and beloved. Deronda began by looking at her, but felt himself presently covering his eyes with his hand, wanting to seclude the melody in darkness; then he refrained from what might seem oddity, and was ready to meet the look of mute appeal which she turned toward him at ...
— Daniel Deronda • George Eliot
... reclines, and deny it who can, Though he 'merrily' liv'd, he is now a 'grave' man; Rare compound of oddity, frolic, and fun! Who relish'd a joke, and rejoic'd in a pun; 150 Whose temper was generous, open, sincere; A stranger to flatt'ry, a stranger to fear; Who scatter'd around wit and humour at will; Whose daily 'bons mots' half a column might fill; A Scotchman, from pride and ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith • Oliver Goldsmith
... boys together? Ah well! I ought not to have supposed that all worlds were like this old world. Indeed, I often say this is the queerest world I ever knew. Perhaps theirs is not so queer, and it is I who am the oddity. ...
— The Brick Moon, et. al. • Edward Everett Hale


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