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Oddity vs Outlandishness - What's the difference?

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Oddity is a synonym of outlandishness.


As nouns the difference between oddity and outlandishness

is that oddity is an odd or strange thing or opinion while outlandishness is the quality of being outlandish.

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

    outlandishness

    English

    Noun

  • The quality of being outlandish.
  • *{{quote-news, 2009, January 16, Austin Considine, A Return to Kitsch Mountain, New York Times citation
    • , passage=Mini-golf and go-cart parks had exploded, each striving to outdo its literally dozens of competitors in outlandishness . }}

    Synonyms

    *bizarreness

    Related terms

    *outlandish *outlandishly