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# oddity

noun (an oddity, oddities)

«oddity» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A strange or unusual person, thing or event. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oddity/#m1)
2. Being strange or unusual (uncountable). [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oddity/#m2)

### In the lessons

Used in stories, science and everyday talk: museums show oddities; nature has oddities like the platypus, a mammal that lays eggs. Phrases: "a bit of an oddity", "an oddity of nature".

### Examples

- The platypus is an oddity: a mammal that lays eggs. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oddity/#x1)
- The shop sold oddities like two-headed toy dragons. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oddity/#x2)
- It was an oddity that the clock ran backwards. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oddity/#x3)
- Among the plain houses, the purple one was an oddity. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oddity/#x4)
- In a class of football fans, the boy who loved opera was an oddity. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oddity/#x5)
- The oddity of the noise made us look around. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oddity/#x6)
- The museum's cabinet of oddities was my favourite room. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oddity/#x7)

### Note

Plural "oddities". From "odd" (strange, and also not even). Odd numbers (1, 3, 5) have nothing to do with oddities, though they share the word "odd".

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «oddity» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oddity/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«oddity» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/oddity.html) on Mova free.