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oddity

noun
/ˈɒdɪti/UK/ˈɑdɪti/US/ˈɔdɪte/

Etymology

From odd + -ity.

  1. derived from *wes-✻ — “to stick, prick, pierce, sting”
  2. derived from *uzdaz✻ — “point”
  3. derived from oddi — “odd, third or additional number; triangle”
  4. inherited from odde
  5. suffixed as oddity — “odd + ity”

Definitions

  1. An odd or strange thing or opinion.

    • An Avonside 0-4-4T with outside cylinders, bought by the S.M.A. in 1882 and scrapped in 1892 as a dismal failure, was one of the motive power oddities (some of them mortgaged).

  2. A strange person

    A strange person; an oddball.

  3. Strangeness.

    • The thing was unprecedented in his experience, and probably he wondered in his equine way at the eccentricities of the human race, and questioned whether oddity might not be merging into insanity in his master’s case.

The neighborhood

Derived

oddity effect

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for oddity. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA