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English Dictionary: oddity by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
oddity
n
  1. eccentricity that is not easily explained [syn: oddity, oddness]
  2. a strange attitude or habit
    Synonym(s): oddity, queerness, quirk, quirkiness, crotchet
  3. something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting
    Synonym(s): curio, curiosity, oddity, oddment, peculiarity, rarity
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Oddity \Odd"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Oddities}.
      1. The quality or state of being odd; singularity; queerness;
            peculiarity; as, oddity of dress, manners, and the like.
  
                     That infinitude of oddities in him.   --Sterne.
  
      2. That which is odd; as, a collection of oddities.
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