oddity

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odd·i·ty /ˈɒdəti $ ˈɑː-/ noun (plural oddities)

1 [countableC]STRANGE a strange or unusual person or thing 怪人；怪事，奇特的东西

In a class of 120 students there were four women including myself, and I still felt rather an oddity.

在一个有120名学生的班级里，包括我在内共有4名女生，可我仍然感觉像个异类。

2 [countableC, uncountableU]STRANGE a strange quality in someone or something 奇怪，古怪，奇特

60s fashions that are remembered for their oddity

以风格怪异而留在人们记忆中的60年代的时装

Examples from the Corpus

oddity• Horton was considered an oddity by most eastern cognoscenti, and his school and company at best a noble experiment.• A white buffalo is an animal oddity.• The most successful of the human oddities, Taylor says, were those who could present their deformities as performance art.• There are other examples of cultural evolution in birds and monkeys, but these are just interesting oddities.• But, as with Herczeg s letter to the Reader, it is the last sentence that is the real oddity.• Cairns and co focus on the oddities of human nature with a certain morbid curiosity.• The oddity of the situation didn't seem to bother her at all.• Their very oddity deterred him from doing so.

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BNC: 13977 COCA: 13984

oddity noun
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BNC: 13977 COCA: 13984

oddity

Crazy person: nutjob, madman, lunatic...

Difference and differences: difference, contrast, distinction...