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oddity
noun
1 she was regarded as a bit of an oddity:
eccentric, crank, misfit, fish out of water, square peg in a round hole, round peg in a square hole, maverick, nonconformist, original, rare bird;
Latin rara avis;
informal character, oddball, weirdo, weirdie, crackpot, nut, freak;
British, informal odd bod, oner;
North American, informal screwball, kook, nutso, wacko, wack;
US, informal wackadoo, wackadoodle;
informal , dated case.
antonyms conformist.
2 his most influential work remains an oddity in some respects:
anomaly, aberration, curiosity, rarity, outlier, edge case.
3 he was struck by the oddity of the collection:
strangeness, peculiarity, oddness, curiousness, weirdness, bizarreness, abnormality, unusualness, eccentricity, queerness, freakishness, unnaturalness, incongruity, incongruousness, outlandishness, extraordinariness, unconventionality, singularity, individuality, anomalousness;
informal wackiness, kookiness.
4 the oddities of human nature:
peculiarity, idiosyncrasy, eccentricity, quirk, irregularity, twist, kink, crotchet, mannerism.
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