ODDNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does oddness mean? 

• ODDNESS (noun)
  The noun ODDNESS has 2 senses:

1. the parity of odd numbers (not divisible by two)

2. eccentricity that is not easily explained

  Familiarity information: ODDNESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ODDNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The parity of odd numbers (not divisible by two)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Hypernyms ("oddness" is a kind of...):

parity ((mathematics) a relation between a pair of integers: if both integers are odd or both are even they have the same parity; if one is odd and the other is even they have different parity)

Derivation:

odd (not divisible by two)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Eccentricity that is not easily explained

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

oddity; oddness

Hypernyms ("oddness" is a kind of...):

eccentricity (strange and unconventional behavior)

Derivation:

odd (not easily explained)

 Context examples 

I was so much astonished, that the oddness of introducing a madman in an asylum did not strike me at the moment; and, besides, there was a certain dignity in the man's manner, so much of the habit of equality, that I at once made the introduction: Lord Godalming; Professor Van Helsing; Mr. Quincey Morris, of Texas; Mr. Renfield.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)