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Definitions: Oddity |
OddityNoun1. Eccentricity that is not easily explained. 2. A strange attitude or habit. 3. Something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "oddity" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1660. (references) |
Synonyms: OdditySynonyms: crotchet (n), curio (n), curiosity (n), oddment (n), oddness (n), peculiarity (n), queerness (n), quirk (n), quirkiness (n), rarity (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Insanity | Fanaticism, infatuation, craze; oddity, eccentricity, twist, monomania (caprice); kleptodipsomania; hypochondriasis; (low spirits); melancholia, depression, clinical depression, severe depression; hysteria; amentia. |
Intrinsicality | Moods, declensions, features, aspects; peculiarities; (speciality); idiosyncrasy, oddity; idiocrasy; (tendency); diagnostics. |
Laughingstock | Original, oddity; queer fish, odd fish; quiz, square toes; old monkey, old fogey, fogey monkey, fogy monkey; buffoon; (jester); pantomimist; (actor). |
Ridiculousness | Noun: ridiculousness; Adjective: comicality, oddity; Adjective: extravagance, drollery. |
Unconformity | Noun: {opp. } nonconformity; unconformity, disconformity; unconventionality, informality, abnormity, abnormality, anomaly; anomalousness; Adjective: exception, peculiarity; infraction of law, breach, of law, violation of law, violation of custom, violation of usage, infringement of law, infringement of custom, infringement of usage; teratism, eccentricity, bizarrerie, oddity, je ne sais quoi, monster, monstrosity, rarity; freak, freak of Nature, weirdo, mutant; rouser, snorter. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Oddity |
| English words defined with "oddity": Oddities. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Billy, you are dealing with the oddity of time travel with the greatest of ease! (Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure; writing credit: Chris Matheson; Ed Solomon) | |
Movie/TV Titles | 3001: A Sex Oddity (2002) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The famous Russell [Bros. in the preten]tious oddity, Maids to order by Frank Dumont and Wm. F. Carrol.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Travel | Czech Rep | Although the Czechs regard the custom as an amusing American oddity, they are also very amenable to attending, as an offer of food is always considered gracious and the typical Czech working day starts early. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Oddity" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.50% of the time. "Oddity" is used about 133 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.5% | 131 | 27,855 |
| Noun (common) | 1.5% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 133 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "oddity": oddity dress ♦ oddity of behavior ♦ oddity of behaviour. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "oddity": oddity-value. | |
Ending with "oddity": otididae-oddity, Wooster-like-oddity. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
oddity | 152 | inc oddity | 4 |
human oddity | 118 | bowie david lyrics oddity space | 4 |
sexual oddity | 69 | freak oddity | 4 |
medical oddity | 58 | oddity roadside | 4 |
international oddity | 52 | medical oddity picture | 4 |
space oddity | 32 | human sexual oddity | 4 |
mtv oddity | 14 | oddity physical | 4 |
lyrics oddity space | 14 | amusement freak human oddity presenting profit show | 4 |
sex oddity | 13 | museum oddity | 4 |
plastic oddity | 11 | female oddity | 3 |
animal oddity | 10 | hyrule oddity | 3 |
human oddity picture | 9 | 2001 oddity space | 3 |
david bowie space oddity | 7 | gmedia oddity | 3 |
oddity wwf | 7 | oddity photo | 3 |
oddity space tab | 5 | bowie download ezthemes oddity space space | 3 |
medical museum oddity | 5 | chord oddity space | 3 |
human oddity photo | 5 | medical oddity photo | 3 |
mp3 oddity space | 5 | bowie david mp3 oddity space | 3 |
freak human oddity | 5 | bizarre oddity | 3 |
nature oddity | 4 | anatomical oddity | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "oddity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | thagmë (curiosity, miracle, wonder), njeri i çuditur, gjë e çuditshme (quip, quirk), çudi (astonishment, daze, maggot, marvel, miracle, surprise, wonder, wonderwork). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | حادث غريب, حب إستطلاع (curiosity, inquisitiveness, nosiness), شذوذ (abecedarian, aberration, abnormality, anomaly, anomie, eccentricity, exception, kink, quirk, sports). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | странност (fantasticality, peculiarity, queerness, singularity, strangeness), чудноватост, чудак (case, codger, crank, cure, eccentric, faddist, odd-ball, original, quiz, weirdie, weirdy), особняк (card, crank, erratic, freak, original). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 怪异 (freaky, monstrous, Oddities). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zvláštnost (peculiarity, speciality, specialty, strangeness), výstřednost (eccentricity, extravagance, kink, peculiarity, quirk, weirdness, wilderness), podivnost (strangeness), podivínství (eccentricity, whimsicality). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | چیزعجیب وغریب , غرابت (Peculiarity, Singular, Singularity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | omituisuus (eccentricity, oddness, peculiarity, queerness, strangeness), eriskummallisuus (oddness, peculiarity, queerness, strangeness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | singularité, curiosité. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | seltsamkeit (oddness, peculiarity, queerness, quizzicalness, singularness, strangeness, unusualness, weirdness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μοναδικότησ (peculiarity, singularness, uniqueness), μοναδικότητα (singleness, singularity, singularness, uniqueness), παραδοξότησ (eeriness, outlandishness, paradoxicalness, quaintness, sic, singularness, strangeness), παραδοξότητα (eeriness, outlandishness, quaintness, sic, singularness, strangeness), αλλοκοτιά. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מוזרות (peculiarity, strangeness, weirdness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | különlegesség (caviar, peculiarity, speciality), furcsaság (bizarrerie, freak, funniness, peculiarity, quaintness, strangeness, weirdness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | keganjilan (pecullar nature, strangeness), keanehan (idiosyncrasy, peculiarity), keajaiban (marvel, miracle, mystery, prodigy, remarkableness, wonder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | stranezza (curiousness, eccentricity, oddness, peculiarity, queerness, quirk, singularity, singularness, strangeness, unusualness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | red quaagh, fer quaagh (alien, foreigner). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oddityay um tanto excêntrico, singularidade (freak, oneness, peculiarity, rareness, singleness, singularity), pessoa esquisita, extravagância (crotchet, extravagance, faddist, flamboyancy, flamboyant, freak, impertinent, lunacy, whim, whimsy), excentricidade (antic, caprice, Ecclesiastes, fantastically, originally, peculiarity, singularity, whimsicality), esquisitice (kink). (various references) om ciudat (Jigger), lucru straniu, lucru ciudat, excentricitate (eccentricity, excentricity, queerness, singularity), excentric (bizarre, crackpot, cranky, crazy, crotchety, eccentric, extravagant, fancy, fantastic, fantastical, lunatic, maggot, nut, odd, original, queer, tappet), ciudãţenie (behavior, behaviour, curio, curiosity, eccentricity, extravagance, freak, kink, oddment, oddness, originality, peculiarity, queerness, quip, singularity, strangeness, vagary, whim, whimsicality), întâmplare stranie, întâmplare curioasã. (various references) странность (kink, strangeness, weirdness). (various references) osobenjaštvo, nastranost (eccentricity, extravagance, kink, quaintness, queerness, twist, weirdness), čudnost (flakiness, oddness, peculiarity, weirdness). (various references) original (aboriginal, creative, first, inventive, manuscript, master copy, novel, odd, origin, original, primal, prime, pristine, quaint, queer, quiz, singular), singularidad (oddness, singularity), rareza (extravagance, flitter, freak, gowk, oddness, peculiarity, quaintness, queerness, rareness, rarity, scarceness, scarcity, strangeness, weirdness), manía (craze, fad, foible, hobby horse, kink, mania, obsession, rage, thing, trick), genio raro, excentricidad (eccentricity, kink), cosa rara (droll, freak). (various references) original (aboriginal, case, character, crank, eccentric, freak, master, master copy, original), underlighet, egendomlighet (peculiarity, quirk, singularity, strangeness, whimsicality), besynnerlighet (mysteriousness, peculiarity, quirk, strangeness). (various references) คนหรือสิ่งที่แตกต่าง. (various references) tuhaf tip (case, curio, curiosity, fruitcake, odd fellow, odd fish, screwball, weirdo), gariplik (crankiness, drollery, fad, fantasticality, grotesqueness, oddness, singularity, strangeness, whimsicality, whimsicalness), antika kimse, acayiplik (antics, crankiness, eccentricity, fantasticality, lark, novelty, oddness, peculiarity, queerness, quirk, singularity, strangeness, whimsicality, whimsicalness). (various references) чудакуватість (drollery, oddness), чудак (oddball, oddbod), дивна річ (quiz), дивна людина (oddball), дивний випадок, дивацтво (crotchet, faddiness, freak, whirligig), дивак (case, caution, codger, crotcheteer, eccentric, faddist, maggot, oddball, oddbod, original, quiz, weirdie, weirdo, weirdy). (various references) trường hợp kỳ quặc, sự kỳ quặc, sự kỳ dị người kỳ cục, sự kỳ cục, nét kỳ cục vật kỳ dị. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Oddity" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: mordbity, oddesy, oddi, oddict, oddish, oddisy, oddit, odditie, Odete, odit, ordit, oudit. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "oddity" (pronounced Ä"dutē) |
| 5 | Ä" d u t ē | commodity. |
| 4 | -d u t ē | absurdity, acidity, fluidity, heredity, humidity, illiquidity, liquidity, lividity, morbidity, nudity, rapidity, rigidity, solidity, stupidity, superfluidity, timidity, turbidity, validity. |
| 3 | -u t ē | ability, abnormality, acceptability, accessibility, accountability, activity, actuality, acuity, adaptability, admissibility, adversity, advisability, affinity, affordability, aggressivity, agility, alacrity, alkalinity, ambiguity, amenity, amiability, amity, analyticity, animosity, annuity, anonymity, antiquity, anxiety, applicability, atrocity, audacity, austerity, authenticity, authority, availability, banality, barbarity, believability, bestiality, biodiversity, bisexuality, brevity, brutality, calamity, capability, capacity, captivity, causality, cavity, celebrity, centrality, charity, chastity, civility, clarity, collegiality, commonality, community, comparability, compatibility, complexity, complicity, comprehensibility, conditionality, conductivity, confidentiality, conformity, congeniality, congruity, connectivity, constitutionality, continuity, convertibility, creativity, credibility, credulity, criminality, criticality, crotchety, culpability, curiosity, cyclicality, debility, deductibility, deformity, deity, deniability, density, dependability, depravity, deputy, desirability, dexterity, dignity, dimensionality, disability, discontinuity, disparity, dissimilarity, disunity, diversity, divinity, docility, domesticity, duality, ductility, duplicity, durability, eccentricity, elasticity, electability, electricity, eligibility, enforceability, enmity, enormity, entity, equality, equanimity, equity, eternity, ethnicity, eventuality, exclusivity, expressivity, extraterritoriality, extremity, facility, fallibility, falsity, familiarity, fatality, feasibility, Felicity, femininity, ferocity, fertility, festivity, fidelity, finality, flammability, flexibility, formality, fragility, fraternity, frivolity, frugality, functionality, futility, generality, generosity, geniality, gentility, gratuity, gravity, gullibility, heterogeneity, heterosexuality, hilarity, homogeneity, homosexuality, hospitality, hostility, humanity, humility, hyperactivity, hypersensitivity, identity, illegality, immaturity, immobility, immorality, immortality, immunity, impartiality, impersonality, impossibility, impropriety, impunity, impurity, inability, inaccessibility, inactivity, incapacity, incivility, incompatibility, incongruity, incredulity, indemnity, indestructibility, indignity, individuality, inequality, inequity, inevitability, infallibility, inferiority, infertility, infidelity, infinity, infirmity, inflexibility, informality, ingenuity, inhumanity, insanity, insecurity, insensitivity, instability, instrumentality, insularity, integrity, intensity, invincibility, invisibility, invulnerability, irrationality, irregularity, irresponsibility, irritability, laity, laxity, legality, legibility, lethality, levity, liability, liberality, locality, longevity, majority, malleability, maneuverability, marketability, masculinity, materiality, maternity, maturity, mediocrity, mendacity, mentality, minority, miscibility, mobility, modality, modernity, monstrosity, morality, mortality, motility, multiplicity, municipality, musicality, mutuality, nationality, nativity, necessity, negativity, neutrality, nobility, Nonconformity, nonentity, nonutility, normality, notoriety, obesity, objectivity, obscenity, obscurity, opacity, opportunity, originality, overcapacity, oversensitivity, palatability, parity, partiality, particularity, passivity, paternity, paucity, peculiarity, permeability, perpetuity, perplexity, personality, perversity, piety, plausibility, plurality, polarity, polity, pomposity, popularity, portability, possibility, posterity, practicality, predictability, principality, priority, probability, probity, proclivity, productivity, profanity, profitability, progressivity, promiscuity, propensity, proportionality, propriety, prosperity, proximity, publicity, punctuality, purity, quality, quantity, radioactivity, rarity, rationality, reactivity, readability, reality, receptivity, reciprocity, reflexivity, regularity, relativity, reliability, religiosity, respectability, responsibility, retroactivity, rickety, salinity, sanctity, sanity, scarcity, seasonality, security, selectivity, senility, seniority, sensibility, sensitivity, sensuality, sentimentality, serendipity, serenity, severity, sexuality, similarity, simplicity, sincerity, sobriety, society, solemnity, solidarity, sorority, speciality, specificity, spirituality, spontaneity, stability, sterility, subjectivity, suitability, superconductivity, superiority, supermajority, surety, survivability, susceptibility, sustainability, technicality, temerity, tenacity, theatricality, tonality, totality, toxicity, tranquility, transferability, Trinity, triviality, ubiquity, unanimity, unavailability, unfamiliarity, uniformity, unity, universality, university, unpopularity, unpredictability, unreality, unreliability, uppity, utility, vanity, variability, variety, varsity, velocity, velvety, venality, veracity, Verity, versatility, viability, vicinity, virginity, virility, virtuosity, viscosity, visibility, vitality, volatility, voracity, vulgarity, vulnerability. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-i-o-t-y" | |
-1 letter: toddy. | |
-2 letters: dido, didy, doit, doty, tidy, tody. | |
-3 letters: did, dit, dot, odd, tod, toy, yid, yod. | |
-4 letters: do, id, it, od, oy, ti, to, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-d-i-o-t-y" | |
+2 letters: additory. | |
+4 letters: copyedited, dedicatory, dicynodont, diphyodont, outyielded. | |
+5 letters: dehydration, dicotyledon, dicynodonts. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 64 64 69 74 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--- -.. -.. .. - -.--. |
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