Oddity vs Unusualness - What's the difference?
oddity | unusualness | Synonyms |
An odd or strange thing or opinion.
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A strange person; an oddball.
Strangeness.
(uncountable) The state or condition of being unusual.
* Herman Melville, Pierre: or, The Ambiguities
(countable) Something unusual; an aberration.
Oddity is a synonym of unusualness.
As nouns the difference between oddity and unusualness
is that oddity is an odd or strange thing or opinion while unusualness is (uncountable) the state or condition of being unusual.oddity
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(oddities)Synonyms
* oddballSee also
* weirdounusualness
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- The pale, inscrutable determinateness, and flinchless intrepidity of Pierre, now began to domineer upon them; for any social unusualness or greatness is sometimes most impressive in the retrospect.