From .

• IPA: /ˈɒdɪti/

oddity

1. (countable) An odd or strange thing or opinion.

   Synonyms: irregularity, outlier, Thesaurus:anomaly

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC ↗, page 1 ↗:

     In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned. But he had then none of the oddities and mannerisms which I hold to be inseparable from genius, and which struck my attention in after days when I came in contact with the Celebrity.

2. (countable) A strange person; an oddball.

   Synonyms: kook, oddball, odd duck, weirdo, Thesaurus:strange person

   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC ↗, pages 207–208 ↗:

     Fête succeeded fête in honour of the arrival of Christina of Sweden, who seemed to communicate her own reckless love of novelty to the then somewhat staid French court. Claim your privileges as an oddity, and even you yourself will be astonished at their extent.

3. (uncountable) Strangeness.

   Synonyms: oddness, rumness, weirdness, Thesaurus:strangeness

• French: bizarrerie, excentricité
• German: Merkwürdigkeit
• Italian: bizzarria

• French: bizarrerie, excentricité
• German: Seltsamkeit
• Italian: bizzarria, stranezza
• Spanish: rareza