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Deformity vs Oddity - What's the difference?

deformity | oddity |

As nouns the difference between deformity and oddity

is that deformity is the state of being deformed while oddity is an odd or strange thing or opinion.

deformity

English

Noun

(deformities)
  • The state of being deformed.
  • Something which is deformed.

    • 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