the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. The quality or state of being odd; singularity; queerness; peculiarity.
n. That which is odd.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. The quality of being odd; singularity; strangeness; whimsicality.
n. A peculiarity; a singularity; an odd way.
n. A singular person or thing; one characterized by oddness.
n.Synonyms See eccentric.
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n. something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting
n. a strange attitude or habit
n. eccentricity that is not easily explained
Word Usage
"Joan said to herself it was plain where the boy got his oddity; but what she called oddity was but sense from a deeper source than she knew the existence of."