Rarity vs Oddity - What's the difference?
rarity | oddity |
A measure of the scarcity of an object.
(chemistry, of a gas) Thinness; the property of having low density
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(senseid)A rare object.
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, title= An odd or strange thing or opinion.
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, 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.
As nouns the difference between rarity and oddity
is that rarity is a measure of the scarcity of an object while oddity is an odd or strange thing or opinion.rarity
English
Noun
(rarities)David Van Tassel], [http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/lee-dehaan Lee DeHaan
Wild Plants to the Rescue, volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Plant breeding is always a numbers game.
