oddity

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments  · 

View all »
Definitions (10)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (2)

  1. noun One that is odd.
  2. noun The state or quality of being odd; strangeness.

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (4)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (1)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (3)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

  • Another oddity is the vast amount of secrecy surrounding Intellectual Ventures. —  Techdirt
  • The BAFTA nominations are an oddity, acknowledging films yet to be released in the UK in a desperate attempt to seem relevant. —  Irish Blogs
  • Hardspell has a little update on the state of that oddity, the Phenom / Athlon X2 6500. —  The Inquirer
  • This month's Pop Lit lineup begins with an engaging oddity, an old-fashioned adventure story with a feminist twist. —  Boston.com Most Popular
  • Another oddity is that the Home Run Champ back then only left the yard 12 times in the season while Ryan Howard looks to lay claim to that award this year with 47 round trippers so far (what a difference steroids makes). —  Sportscolumn.com
 

Tags

oddity hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Words tagged oddity

Stats

This word has been looked up 94 times.

On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Add a related word »
Related

Roget's II Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

Allen's Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

eccentricity ·  idiosyncrasy ·  anomaly ·  peculiarity ·  foible ·  freak ·  quirk ·  strangeness ·  imperfection ·  caprice ·  novelty ·  vagary

Used in the same contextWord Family

oddity:   oddities
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »

/ˈɑdəti/
by American Heritage

Charts

frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word several times a year.

Recently looked up

theodicy · ravish · cup · driftwood · uremic

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

autotruncate · rimshot · qualms · poofter · oh for heaven's sake