oddness

English

Etymology

From Middle English oddenesse; equivalent to odd +‎ -ness.

Pronunciation

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Noun

oddness (countable and uncountable, plural oddnesses)

1. (uncountable) The state or quality of being odd.
2. (countable) The result or product of being odd.
   • 1714 August 15 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “WEDNESDAY, August 4, 1714”, in The Spectator, number 576; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume VI, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:

     This humour broke out at first in many little oddnesses: he had never any stated hours for his dinner, supper, or sleep; because, said he, we ought to attend the calls of nature, and not set our appetites to our meals […]

     The spelling has been modernized.

   • 1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days:

     Neither was he intimate with any of the other bigger boys, who were warned off by his oddnesses, for he was a very queer fellow; […]

Synonyms

• (the state or quality of being odd): oddity, weirdness; see also Thesaurus:strangeness

Translations

the state or quality of being odd

• Arabic: غَرَابَة f (ḡarāba)
• Finnish: kummallisuus (fi)
• Irish: aiteacht f
• Italian: originalità (it) f, bizzarria (it) f, stranezza (it) f, stramberia (it) f, bislaccheria (it) f
• Latvian: dīvainums m, dīvainība f

the result or product of being odd

• Latvian: dīvainība f

Anagrams

• Seddons, soddens