Antonyms for oddness
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : od |
Phonetic Transcription : É’d |
Definition of oddness
Origin :- late 14c., from odd + -ness.
- As in mannerism : noun peculiarity of how someone behaves, acts
- As in oddity : noun abnormality
- As in quirkiness : noun eccentricity
- As in singularity : noun eccentricity
- As in eccentricity : noun bizarreness, unusualness
- It was an odd welcome, but its oddness at the moment went unheeded.
- Extract from : « The Lion's Skin » by Rafael Sabatini
- Her look of surprise showed that she was struck with the oddness of this.
- Extract from : « Out of the Depths » by Robert Ames Bennet
- There was an oddness in his manner she could not understand.
- Extract from : « Antony Gray,--Gardener » by Leslie Moore
- I dwelt not on the oddness of its contents, thoroughly characteristic of the writer.
- Extract from : « The War Trail » by Mayne Reid
- The oddness of the incident impressed it indelibly on my mind.
- Extract from : « The Retrospect » by Ada Cambridge
- The oddness of some of the odd lots was occasionally amusing.
- Extract from : « The Mystery of the Sea » by Bram Stoker
- The approach to the city is striking to all strangers from its oddness.
- Extract from : « Retrospect of Western Travel, Volume I (of 2) » by Harriet Martineau
- And then gradually he had come to feel the oddness of the animal.
- Extract from : « The Scarecrow and Other Stories » by G. Ranger Wormser
- But still, it will be said, there is an antiquity, an oddness in the style.
- Extract from : « Anima Poet » by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- The parasol, too, by its oddness, caused his mind to wander.
- Extract from : « Very Woman » by Remy de Gourmont
Synonyms for oddness
- aberration
- abnormality
- affectation
- air
- anomaly
- bizarreness
- caprice
- capriciousness
- characteristic
- conversation piece
- curiosity
- eccentricity
- extraordinariness
- foible
- freak
- freakishness
- habit
- hereticism
- idiocrasy
- idiosyncrasy
- incongruity
- irregularity
- kink
- nonconformity
- oddity
- oddness
- outlandishness
- peculiarity
- phenomenon
- pose
- pretension
- queerness
- quirk
- quirkiness
- rarity
- singularity
- strangeness
- trait
- trick
- unconventionality
- unnaturalness
- unorthodoxness
- waywardness
- weirdness
- whimsicality
- whimsicalness
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