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Oddness

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. the state or quality of being odd

n. the result or product of being odd

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The state of being odd, or not even.

n. Singularity; strangeness; eccentricity; irregularity; uncouthness

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The property of being odd.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. eccentricity that is not easily explained

n. the parity of odd numbers (not divisible by two)

Word Usage

"It's never clear if his oddness is willed and sophisticated, as a mannerist device (he was a Florentine colleague of Pontormo and Bronzino) or is the product of someone trained in old-fashioned styles (he studied with Perugino) trying, and failing, to come completely up-to-date."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

eccentricity parity

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

singularity strangeness eccentricity irregularity uncouthness

Same Context

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