[syn: curio, curiosity, oddity, oddment, peculiarity, rarity]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
oddity \odd"i*ty\ ([o^]d"[i^]*t[y^]), n.; pl. Oddities
([o^]d"[i^]*t[i^]z).
1. The quality or state of being odd; singularity; queerness;
peculiarity; as, oddity of dress, manners, and the like.
[1913 Webster]
That infinitude of oddities in him. --Sterne.
[1913 Webster]
2. That which is odd; as, a collection of oddities.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
oddity
n 1: eccentricity that is not easily explained [syn: oddity,
oddness]
2: a strange attitude or habit [syn: oddity, queerness,
quirk, quirkiness, crotchet]
3: something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting [syn:
curio, curiosity, oddity, oddment, peculiarity,
rarity]