What is another word for oddness?

Pronunciation: [ˈɒdnəs] (IPA)

The word "oddness" refers to something peculiar or strange. Some common synonyms for oddness are eccentricity, strangeness, quirkiness, uniqueness, and peculiarity. Eccentricity refers to behavior or personality that is unconventional and often unexpected. Strangeness is used to describe something that is unfamiliar or out of the ordinary. Quirkiness suggests a peculiar or sudden change in behavior. Uniqueness refers to something that is one-of-a-kind, while peculiarity relates to something that is strange or unusual in a particular way. Having a good understanding of these synonyms for oddness can help you express yourself better when describing something unusual or unexpected.

What are the hypernyms for Oddness?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the hyponyms for Oddness?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.
  • hyponyms for oddness (as nouns)

What are the opposite words for oddness?

Oddness is a word that describes something that is unusual or peculiar. Antonyms for oddness include conformity, normalcy, regularity, sameness, and uniformity. Conformity implies adherence to established norms, rules or conventions, while normalcy refers to something being average, typical or natural. Regularity connotes predictability and conformity to a consistent pattern, while sameness implies similarity or lack of variation. Uniformity describes a state of being consistent in appearance or nature. All these antonyms for oddness, describe the opposite of being bizarre or strange, and can be used to describe things that are familiar, ordinary and predictable.

What are the antonyms for Oddness?

Usage examples for Oddness

For a moment the girl's attention had been wandering, engaged by the oddness of her surroundings, but now she tried to conceal her growing discomfort.
"The Red Cross Girls with the Russian Army"
Margaret Vandercook
The oddness of the circumstances, and the positiveness of Frank, displeased your brother.
"Anna St. Ives"
Thomas Holcroft
She had all the reverence of her class for her son's "oddness."
"The Golden Scarecrow"
Hugh Walpole

Famous quotes with Oddness

  • My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
    Alan Alda
  • The continent had to be discovered emotionally. It had to become a homeland and feel like home. The sense of overpowering space, the isolation, the warmth of summer, the garish light, the shiny-leafed trees, the birds and insects, the smell of air filled with dust, the strange silences, and the landscapes in all their oddness had to become familiar.
    Geoffrey Blainey
  • No doubt my poetry errs on the side of oddness. I hope in time to have a more balanced and Miltonic style. But as air, melody, is what strikes me most of all in music, and design in painting, so design, pattern, or what I am in the habit of calling is what I above all aim at in poetry. Now it is the virtue of design, pattern, or inscape to be distinctive, and it is the vice of distinctiveness to become queer. This vice I cannot have escaped.
    Gerard Manley Hopkins
  • The difference between tragedy and comedy is the difference between experience and intuition. In the experience we strive against every condition of our animal life: against death, against the frustration of ambition, against the instability of human love. In the intuition we trust the arduous eccentricities we're born to, and see the oddness of a creature who has never got acclimatized to being created.
    Christopher Fry

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