oddity
oddity · oddities
ром
фанат, чудак, ботаник
Merkwürdigkeit, Seltsamkeit
An odd or strange thing or opinionAn odd or strange thing or opinion.
UK/ˈɒdɪti/US/ˈɑdɪti/
» The museum also contains oddities.
Meaning
3 senses(countable)An odd or strange thing or opinion.
Merkwürdigkeit
a strange attitude or habit
(countable)A strange person; an oddball.
(uncountable)Strangeness.
Seltsamkeit
Examples
4 sentencesThe museum also contains oddities.
That explains your many oddities.
This is one of Boldi's oddities.
I'll grant you that it's one of the oddities of the French language and that even I get fooled regularly.
deDass das eine der Eigentümlichkeiten der französischen Sprache ist und auch ich mich regelmäßig täuschen lasse, will ich gerne zugestehen.
Translations
4 languagesDeutsch
By meaning 2
odd or strange thing:
strangeness:
Forms
plural: odditiesSynonyms
68 synonymsdeviantC2freakB2rarityC1unusualnessB2eccentricC1eccentricityC2quirkC1irregularityoutlieraberrantabnormalityanomalydeviancefarlie
Close in meaning
- a strange attitude or habit:queernessquirkquirkinesscrotchet
- eccentricity that is not easily explained:oddness
- something unusual — perhaps worthy of collecting:curiocuriosityoddmentpeculiarityrarity
Word family
3 related wordsDerivedoddity effect
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable