oddness
State of weirdness
Oddness is the quality of being strange, unusual, or not quite fitting expectations.
It suggests something slightly off without being alarming: There was an oddness to his behavior that I couldn't place.
The word can also refer to the mathematical property of not being divisible by two, though this sense is rare outside technical contexts.
Distinctive personal peculiarity
- unconventionalityDeparture from accepted standards
- quirkinessUnusual or unexpected trait
- whimsicalityPlayfully fanciful quality
- outlandishnessExtreme unconventionality
nonconformity · originality · individualism · flamboyance · zaniness · bohemianism · offbeatness · freakishness
Quality of being strange
- bizarrenessQuality of extreme strangeness
- surrealismIrrational, dreamlike aesthetic
- uncanninessQuality of being disturbingly strange
- eerinessUnsettling strangeness
otherworldliness · alienness · mysteriousness · inexplicability · grotesqueness · spookiness · absurdity · outlandishness
Deviation from the norm
- deviationDeparture from expected path
- irregularityDeparture from standard
- exceptionDeviation from standard
- outlierDistant data point
rarity · abnormality · discrepancy · divergence · inconsistency · variation · mutation · freak
Absence of balanced form
- imbalanceLack of proportion
- disparityMeasurable difference between things
- irregularityDeparture from standard
- lopsidednessState of being uneven
inequality · nonuniformity · skewness · disproportion · inconsistency · variability · jaggedness · roughness
idiosyncrasy
Distinctive personal peculiarity
- unconventionalityDeparture from accepted standards
- quirkinessUnusual or unexpected trait
- whimsicalityPlayfully fanciful quality
outlandishness · nonconformity · originality · individualism · flamboyance · zaniness · bohemianism · offbeatness · freakishness · bizarreness
weirdness
Quality of being strange
- bizarrenessQuality of extreme strangeness
- surrealismIrrational, dreamlike aesthetic
- uncanninessQuality of being disturbingly strange
eeriness · otherworldliness · alienness · mysteriousness · inexplicability · grotesqueness · spookiness · absurdity · outlandishness · freakishness
aberration
Deviation from the norm
- deviationDeparture from expected path
- irregularityDeparture from standard
- exceptionDeviation from standard
outlier · rarity · abnormality · discrepancy · divergence · inconsistency · variation · mutation · freak · glitch
asymmetry
Absence of balanced form
- imbalanceLack of proportion
- disparityMeasurable difference between things
- irregularityDeparture from standard
lopsidedness · inequality · nonuniformity · skewness · disproportion · inconsistency · variability · jaggedness · roughness · patchiness
- mysteriousnessenigma, mystique, inscrutability, obscurity, crypticness
- unnaturalnessartificiality, affectation, contrivance, falseness, fabrication
- math propertiescommutativity, reflexivity, transitivity, symmetry, closure
- traitshonesty, ambitious, brave, calm, kindness
- whimsywhimsy, whim, fairies, caprice, unicorns
- irrationalityirrationality, unreason, illogic, madness, insanity
oddnessnormalcy
State of being typical
normality · ordinariness · conventionality · typicality · regularity
oddnessfamiliarity
Knowledge through experience
recognizability · predictability · comfortableness · expectedness
odd, oddity, oddly, oddball, oddest, odder, odds and ends, oddities, oddments