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Caprice vs Oddity - What's the difference?

caprice | oddity | Synonyms |

As nouns the difference between caprice and oddity

is that caprice is an impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action while oddity is an odd or strange thing or opinion.

caprice

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action.
  • An unpredictable or sudden condition, change, or series of changes.
  • A disposition to be impulsive.
  • An impulsive change of mind.
  • oddity

    English

    Noun

    (oddities)
  • An odd or strange thing or opinion.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned. But he had then none of the oddities and mannerisms which I hold to be inseparable from genius, and which struck my attention in after days when I came in contact with the Celebrity.}}
  • A strange person; an oddball.
  • Strangeness.
  • Synonyms

    * oddball

    See also

    * weirdo