ODDITY


Meaning of ODDITY in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

A white buffalo is an animal oddity .

The oddity of the situation didn't seem to bother her at all.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But, as with Herczeg s letter to the Reader, it is the last sentence that is the real oddity .

Cairns and co focus on the oddities of human nature with a certain morbid curiosity.

Horton was considered an oddity by most eastern cognoscenti, and his school and company at best a noble experiment.

The most successful of the human oddities, Taylor says, were those who could present their deformities as performance art.

Their very oddity deterred him from doing so.

There are other examples of cultural evolution in birds and monkeys, but these are just interesting oddities.

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