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section: English"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Etymology">Etymology</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=oddness&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Etymology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>From <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_English" class="extiw" title="w:Middle English">Middle English</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="enm"><a href="/wiki/oddenesse#Middle_English" title="oddenesse">oddenesse</a></i>; equivalent to <i class="Latn mention" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/odd#English" title="odd">odd</a></i> +‎ <i class="Latn mention" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/-ness#English" title="-ness">-ness</a></i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pronunciation">Pronunciation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=oddness&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Pronunciation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r50165410">.mw-parser-output .k-player .k-attribution{visibility:hidden}</style><table class="audiotable" style="vertical-align: middle; display: inline-block; list-style: none; line-height: 1em; border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0;"><tbody><tr><td>Audio <span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="usage-label-accent"><span class="ib-content"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_English" class="extiw" title="w:American English">US</a></span></span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span><span class="ib-colon qualifier-colon">:</span></td><td class="audiofile"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><audio id="mwe_player_0" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="175" 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class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Noun">Noun</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=oddness&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Noun"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="headword-line"><strong class="Latn headword" lang="en">oddness</strong> (<i><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#countable" title="Appendix:Glossary">countable</a> and <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#uncountable" title="Appendix:Glossary">uncountable</a></i>, <i>plural</i> <b class="Latn form-of lang-en p-form-of" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/oddnesses#English" title="oddnesses">oddnesses</a></b>)</span> </p> <ol><li><span class="usage-label-sense"><span class="ib-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#uncountable" title="Appendix:Glossary">uncountable</a></span><span class="ib-brac">)</span></span> The state or quality of being <a href="/wiki/odd" title="odd">odd</a>.</li> <li><span class="usage-label-sense"><span class="ib-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#countable" title="Appendix:Glossary">countable</a></span><span class="ib-brac">)</span></span> The result or product of being <a href="/wiki/odd" title="odd">odd</a>. <ul><li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><b>1714</b> August 15 (Gregorian calendar), [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Addison" class="extiw" title="w:Joseph Addison">Joseph Addison</a>; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Steele" class="extiw" title="w:Richard Steele">Richard Steele</a> <i>et al.</i>], “WEDNESDAY, August 4, 1714”, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spectator_(1711)" class="extiw" title="w:The Spectator (1711)">The Spectator</a></cite>, number <span class="None" lang="und">576</span>; republished in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Chalmers" class="extiw" title="w:Alexander Chalmers">Alexander Chalmers</a>, editor, <cite>The Spectator; a New Edition,<span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">[</span></span><span title="Carefully Revised, in Six Volumes: With Prefaces Historical and Biographical">…</span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">]</span></span><span class="q-hellip-b"></span></cite>, volume VI, New York, N.Y.: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._Appleton_%26_Company" class="extiw" title="w:D. Appleton & Company">D[aniel] Appleton & Company</a>, <span class="None" lang="und">1853</span>, <small><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/191120697">→OCLC</a></small>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">This humour broke out at first in many little <b>oddnesses</b>: he had never any stated hours for his dinner, supper, or sleep; because, said he, we ought to attend the calls of nature, and not set our appetites to our meals <span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b">[</span>…<span class="q-hellip-b">]</span><span class="q-hellip-b"></span></span><dl><dd><span class="e-footer"><span style="font-size:85%;">The spelling has been modernized.</span></span></dd></dl></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>1857</b></span>, Thomas Hughes, <cite>Tom Brown's School Days</cite>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">Neither was he intimate with any of the other bigger boys, who were warned off by his <b>oddnesses</b>, for he was a very queer fellow; <span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b">[</span>…<span class="q-hellip-b">]</span><span class="q-hellip-b"></span></span></div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Synonyms">Synonyms</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=oddness&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Synonyms"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content">the state or quality of being odd</span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span><span class="ib-colon sense-qualifier-colon">:</span> <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/oddity#English" title="oddity">oddity</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/weirdness#English" title="weirdness">weirdness</a></span>; see also <a href="/wiki/Thesaurus:strangeness" title="Thesaurus:strangeness">Thesaurus:strangeness</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Translations">Translations</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=oddness&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Translations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="NavFrame" id="Translations-the_state_or_quality_of_being_odd"><div class="NavHead" style="text-align:left">the state or quality of being odd</div><div class="NavContent"><table class="translations" role="presentation" data-gloss="the state or quality of being odd"><tbody><tr><td class="translations-cell multicolumn-list" colspan="3"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r81584270">.mw-parser-output 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class="Latn" lang="it"><a href="/wiki/originalit%C3%A0#Italian" title="originalità">originalità</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://it.wiktionary.org/wiki/originalit%C3%A0" class="extiw" title="it:originalità">(it)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="it"><a href="/wiki/bizzarria#Italian" title="bizzarria">bizzarria</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://it.wiktionary.org/wiki/bizzarria" class="extiw" title="it:bizzarria">(it)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="it"><a href="/wiki/stranezza#Italian" title="stranezza">stranezza</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://it.wiktionary.org/wiki/stranezza" class="extiw" title="it:stranezza">(it)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="it"><a href="/wiki/stramberia#Italian" title="stramberia">stramberia</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://it.wiktionary.org/wiki/stramberia" class="extiw" title="it:stramberia">(it)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="it"><a href="/wiki/bislaccheria#Italian" title="bislaccheria">bislaccheria</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://it.wiktionary.org/wiki/bislaccheria" class="extiw" title="it:bislaccheria">(it)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></span></li> <li>Latvian: <span class="Latn" lang="lv"><a href="/wiki/d%C4%ABvainums#Latvian" title="dīvainums">dīvainums</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="lv"><a href="/wiki/d%C4%ABvain%C4%ABba#Latvian" title="dīvainība">dīvainība</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></span></li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></div> <div class="NavFrame" id="Translations-the_result_or_product_of_being_odd"><div 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