oddity

Plural: oddities

Noun

• Something strange, unusual, or peculiar.
• eccentricity that is not easily explained
• a strange attitude or habit
• something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting
• An odd or strange thing or opinion.
• A strange person; an oddball.
• Strangeness.

Examples

• The ODDITY of his opponent’s word choice often led to unexpected high scores.

Synonyms

crotchet, curio, curiosity, oddment, oddness, peculiarity, queerness, quirk, quirkiness, rarity, aberrant, abnormalcy, abnormalism, abnormality, abnormity, anomalousness, anomaly, atypicality, bizarro, coot, crackpot, crank, deviance, deviancy, deviant, eccentric, eccentricity, enormity, extraordinariness, farlie, freak, freakishness, glaik, hard case, irregularity, kook, live one, nonnormality, nutbag, nutbar, nutcase, nutter, odd bod, odd duck, odd fish, oddball, oddity, outlier, peculiarness, queer fish, queerdo, queerhood, rum, rumness, strange bird, strange fish, strangeling, strangeness, unusuality, unusualness, wack, wacko, weirdie, weirdling, weirdness, weirdo, wild man, wingnut

Related Words

oddment