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Eccentricity
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oddness
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Word definitions for oddness in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Oddness \Odd"ness\, n. The state of being odd, or not even. Take but one from three, and you not only destroy the oddness, but also the essence of that number. --Fotherby. Singularity; strangeness; eccentricity; irregularity; uncouthness; as, the oddness ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Oddness may refer to: Eccentricity (behavior) Oddness of numbers, for which see parity (mathematics)
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. eccentricity that is not easily explained [syn: oddity ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) the state or quality of being odd 2 (context countable English) the result or product of being odd
Usage examples of oddness.
She recalled noticing this same oddness on the way in, and now it was stronger.
I thought in a transitory way of the oddness of wells still existing, and then resumed the thread of my speculations.
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Some few persons I have met by chance, and sent them home heartily frighted, as from the oddness of my dress and figure they took me for a ghost or a hobgoblin.
Later he was to remember and perceive in her present behavior a certain oddness which went disregarded now.
Later an opportunity arose for me to turn the subject back to the Lightning Coal Company, and I commented on the oddness of the corporate name and logo.
The self-introduced Kittson was searching his unconscious prisoner and the oddness of that search intrigued Blake.
As Meigs explained McDowell’s plan, Chase could not help but wonder at the essential oddness or perversity of men.
I liked looking at Kari just a shade too much, and Arne, for all his oddnesses, was an investigator.
Part of that oddness -- a subtle thing which Pilch has spotted -- is that Trigger is no longer repelled by plasmoids.
I got mixed up with some oddness in my youth and the long and short of it is that I can't shuffle off this mortal coil until I have read the ten most boring classics.