Synonyms and Antonyms of oddity
1
an odd or peculiar habit
- his one oddity is collecting used pencil leads
crotchet, curiosity, eccentricity, erraticism, idiosyncrasy, individualism, kink, mannerism, peculiarity, quiddity, quip, quirk, singularity, tic, trick, twist
affectation, airs
attribute, characteristic, mark, property, trait
custom, habit, pattern, practice (also practise), way, wont
addiction
abnormality, neuroticism, perversion, weirdness
disposition, genius, leaning, partiality
bent, inclination, penchant, predilection, predisposition, proclivity, propensity, tendency, turn
attitude, character, humor, identity, individuality, nature, personality, temperament
2
something strange or unusual that is an object of interest
- years ago circus sideshows used to display people with unusual physical features as oddities
found object, objet trouvé
curiosa, ephemera, virtu (or vertu)
marvel, prodigy, rara avis, rare bird, wonder
abnormality, anomaly, freak, monster, monstrosity
malformation, mutant, mutation
3
something that is different from what is ordinary or expected
- she is an oddity in that, unlike her sisters, she avoids social media
curiosity, peculiarity, singularity
accident, bizarrerie, phenomenon, quirk, vagary
distortion, kink, mutation, variation
difference, disparity, inconsistence, inconsistency
error, mistake
contradiction, paradox
4
a person of odd or whimsical habits
- an oddity with a penchant for weaving cat fur
character, codger, crack, crackbrain, crackpot, crank, eccentric, flake, fruitcake, head case, kook, nut, nutcase, nutter [British slang], oddball, original, quiz, screwball, weirdo, zany
