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oddity vs strangeness

strangeness vs oddity

oddity and strangeness both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
oddity Yes No No No
strangeness Yes No No No
As nouns, strangeness is a hypernym of oddity; that is, strangeness is a word with a broader meaning than oddity:
  • oddity: a strange attitude or habit
  • strangeness: unusualness as a consequence of not being well known
Other hypernyms of oddity include unfamiliarity.
oddity (noun) strangeness (noun)
something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting unusualness as a consequence of not being well known
a strange attitude or habit the quality of being alien or not native
eccentricity that is not easily explained (physics) one of the six flavors of quark, the third lightest of all quarks
Difference between oddity and strangeness

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