Meaning

3 senses
  1. (countable)An odd or strange thing or opinion.

    Merkwürdigkeit

    a strange attitude or habit

  2. (countable)A strange person; an oddball.

  3. (uncountable)Strangeness.

    Seltsamkeit

Examples

4 sentences
  1. The museum also contains oddities.

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  2. That explains your many oddities.

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  3. This is one of Boldi's oddities.

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  4. 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.

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Translations

4 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 2
odd or strange thing:
strangeness:

Forms

plural: oddities
Singularoddity
Pluraloddities

regular

Synonyms

68 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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