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synonyms for oddity
- abnormality
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- characteristic
- curiosity
- idiosyncrasy
- incongruity
- irregularity
- peculiarity
- phenomenon
- quirk
- rarity
- bizarreness
- eccentricity
- extraordinariness
- freak
- freakishness
- kink
- oddness
- outlandishness
- queerness
- singularity
- strangeness
- unconventionality
- unnaturalness
- conversation piece
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How to use oddity in a sentence
Each epitomized how the promise of serial victories at an oddity called college football could make Americans’ blood vessels churn and dance with hope.
Once obvious and thrilling, three college football coaching hires have lost their luster | Chuck Culpepper | November 30, 2020 | Washington PostIt’s hard to think back to the Vision Fund era today, given the oddities that 2020 has brought.
How SoftBank’s Vision Fund turned losses into gold this summer | Alex Wilhelm | November 12, 2020 | TechCrunchNot only is it a real oddity—we have only found a few hundred in our galaxy—but it has some extremely rare features.
This pair of dancing stars will one day collide and explode | María Paula Rubiano A. | October 16, 2020 | Popular-Science
The "something" in this case was an oddity in the genome sequences of a number of bacteria.
The most obvious source of oddity will simply be the sight of someone other than Brady playing quarterback.
Newton Can Replace Brady, But Can The Pats Replace Half Of Their Defense? | Neil Paine (neil.paine@fivethirtyeight.com) | September 3, 2020 | FiveThirtyEightThe gentle, erudite soul within a body the public considered an oddity is the contrast at the heart of “The Elephant Man.”
Africa was supposedly a place to avoid or, at best, an oddity to pity.
How I Got Addicted to Africa (and Wrote a Thriller About It) | Todd Moss | September 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTTo that end, they partnered with oddity website Atlas Obscura over the summer to host “The School of Transgressive Placemaking.”
A Most Illegal Adventure with New York City’s Wildest Underground Event Planners | Nina Strochlic | December 16, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTFirst oddity: power, open restaurants, people not in panic mode.
How Military Veterans Led Sandy Volunteer Efforts | Peter Meijer | October 28, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTBeaching of the oarfish is a very rare occurrence—the last time it happened was 2010—so two in one week is certainly an oddity.
Fishy Mystery: Are Beached Oarfish Trying to Tell Us Something? | Kevin Bailey | October 23, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTFashion—Do not be too submissive to the dictates of fashion; at the same time avoid oddity or eccentricity in your dress.
The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness | Florence HartleyAbove, in the lower lofts, every conceivable human oddity was assembled in a sort of mercantile crazy quilt.
The Woman Gives | Owen JohnsonIt is to be feared that it was taken out to be read because of its special oddity, and not put back.
A Thin Ghost and Others | M. R. (Montague Rhodes) JamesWe should like to see a Biblical Commentary from his pen; it, would be immortal on account of its straightforwardnsss and oddity.
Our Churches and Chapels | AtticusThe immense oddity resides in the almost exclusively typographic order of the offence.
The Awkward Age | Henry James
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