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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
oddity \odd"ity\ o^d"i^ty^, n.; pl. oddities
   o^d"i^ti^z.
   1. the quality or state of being odd; singularity; queerness;
      peculiarity; as, oddity of dress, manners, and the like.
      1913 webster

            that infinitude of oddities in him.   --sterne.
      1913 webster

   2. that which is odd; as, a collection of oddities.
      1913 webster
see also:
oddities 
[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
oddity
     n 1: eccentricity that is not easily explained syn: oddness
     2: a strange attitude or habit syn: queerness, quirk, quirkiness,
         crotchet
     3: something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting syn: curio,
         curiosity, oddment, peculiarity, rarity
see also:
oddness queerness quirk quirkiness crotchet curio 
curiosity oddment peculiarity rarity 
[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
116 moby thesaurus words for "oddity":
   aberration, abnormality, absurdity, alien, anomalousness, anomaly,
   anticness, bizarreness, bizarrerie, card, case, character, conceit,
   conversation piece, crackpot, crackpotism, crank, crankiness,
   crankism, crotchet, crotchetiness, curio, curiosity, curiousness,
   deformity, deviancy, deviation, differentness, distinctiveness,
   divergence, dottiness, duck, eccentric, eccentricity, erraticism,
   erraticness, exception, extraordinariness, fanatic, fantasticality,
   freak, freakiness, freakishness, grotesqueness, grotesquerie,
   hermit, hobo, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, improbability, incongruity,
   incongruousness, individuality, irregularity, kink, kook,
   kookiness, lone wolf, loner, maggot, malformation, mannerism,
   maverick, meshuggenah, misfit, monstrosity, monstrousness,
   museum piece, natural, nonconformist, nonconformity, nonesuch, nut,
   odd fellow, oddball, oddness, original, outlandishness, outsider,
   pariah, peculiarity, phenomenon, prodigiosity, prodigy, quaintness,
   queer duck, queer fish, queer specimen, queerness, quip, quirk,
   quirkiness, quiz, rara avis, rarity, screwball, singularity,
   solitary, spook, strange thing, strangeness, teratism, tramp,
   trick, twist, type, unconventionality, unnaturalness, unusualness,
   weirdness, weirdo, whim, whimsicality, whimsy, zealot, zombie





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