oddnessn.

Brit.

/ˈɒdnəs/, U.S.

/ˈɑdnəs/

Forms: see odd adj. and -ness suffix.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: odd adj., -ness suffix.

Etymology: < odd adj. + -ness suffix. With sense 5 compare oddity n. N.E.D. (1902) gives the pronunciation as (ǫ·dnės) /ˈɒdnɪs/.

1. The quality of being odd (odd adj. 2) or uneven; unevenness of number.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > [noun] > particular qualities > parity > oddness

odda1398

oddnessa1398

imparity1646

gnomon1660

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 328^v In euene diuisioun is nouȝt euenenesse medled wiþ oddenesse, nouþer oddenesse wiþ euenenesse.

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. iii. 59 The first seemes shorter then the later, who shewes a more odnesse..by reason of his sharpe accent which is vpon the last sillable.

1595 G. Chapman tr. Ovid Banquet of Sence 969 King of the King of Sences..Beauties bewtifier, kinde acquaintance maker, Proportions odnes that makes all things euen.

a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) ii. x. §4. 307 Take but One, from Three; and you..destroy the odnesse.

1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) I. 407 The number three, which participates in oddness, excludes the even.

1921 Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 22 25 The evenness or oddness of the integral arguments of the functions in the paraphrase is constant throughout.

1969 Mind 78 49 To give the better explanation of the oddness of a number will be to give necessary and sufficient conditions for its being odd.

1997 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 453 84 At these points, the polarization can have any orientation orthogonal to e..and that this singular behaviour does not violate the overall evenness or oddness.

†2. Uniqueness, rarity, singularity. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or extraordinary > [noun] > fact of being unparalleled or unique

singlurec1400

oddness1581

unmatchableness1608

peerlessness1611

unmatchedness?1611

incomparability1632

incomparableness1633

inimitableness1660

unparalleledness1665

unparallelness1667

peculiarity1751

uniquity1789

uniqueness1802

unicity1859

phoenixity1886

1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxxix. 188 Oftimes the report of that odnesse which we see not in effect, but heare of in speeche, falles out very lame.

1625 Abp. J. Williams Great Britains Salomon 36 So will I compare these two Kings..that you may see, by the odnesse of their proportion, how they differ from all Kings beside.

1666 J. Davies tr. C. de Rochefort Hist. Caribby-Islands 127 So neatly made, that the eye cannot be cloy'd with considering the odness of their shapes.

3. Divergence from what is ordinary or usual; strangeness, peculiarity; eccentricity.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > abnormality > [noun] > oddness

oddness1611

queerity1711

particularity1712

whimsicalness1715

oddity1739

queerness1748

whimsicality1761

singularity1768

quizzity1788

eccentricity1794

quizziness1798

queerishness1803

fantasticness1825

rumness1840

weirdness1869

quirkiness1870

rumminess1872

whimsiness1909

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Bigearrure,..odnesse of humor, fantasticalnesse.

1700 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding (new ed.) ii. xxxiii. 224 Instances of this kind are so plentiful every where, that if I add one more, it is only for the pleasant oddness of it.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 7. ¶1 I was Reflecting with my self on the Odness of her Fancy.

1760 S. Fielding Ophelia I. xiii. 90 The Oddness of the Event, would make People curious.

1832 W. Macgillivray Trav. & Researches A. von Humboldt xxii. 315 The oddness of the dresses of the principal personages.

1876 W. C. Russell Is he the Man? I. 51 In his oddness a characteristical flavour which a girl would relish.

1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage xv. 58 He..appeared not to notice any oddness in being addressed as Mr. Perkins.

1972 Language 48 314 This is to be expected if the oddness or normalness of a given stress contour depends partly on the speaker's ability to provide a satisfactory context.

1997 Guardian 15 May ii. 10/3 Tales of Chandler's Hollywood period, all centring on the oddness of the arrival of this tweedy, pipe-smoking figure..in this dream factory.

†4. Lack of congruity or harmony, irregularity. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > [noun]

discordance1340

variancec1374

discorda1387

disconvenience?a1425

unsuingc1425

disaccordancec1436

unaccordancec1449

inconveniencec1460

discrepancea1464

difformness1547

disagreeance1548

disagreeing1548

jar1548

disagreement1551

disagreeableness1570

dissonancy1584

discordancy1587

discoherencea1600

disconveniency1601

disharmonya1602

dissent1603

dissonancea1604

incongruency1604

incongruence1610

incongruity1612

discongruity1624

inconformity1625

discorrespondencya1641

inconsonancy1650

inconsistence1651

dissidy1657

unagreeableness1658

discomposure1659

disconsonancy1659

uncorrespondency1659

inconveniency1662

unconsonancy1665

incorrespondence1667

oddness1680

inconsistency1699

incongruousness1727

irreconcilementa1737

discrepancy1748

incoincidence?1798

inaccordance1808

inconsonance1811

inaccordancy1817

incorrespondency1817

cacophony1831

divergence1837

disaccord1871

1680 T. Otway Orphan iv. 48 In my house I only meet with oddness and disorder.

5. As a count noun: an odd thing or characteristic; an oddity; a peculiarity; †an irregularity, a discrepancy (obsolete).

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > [noun] > instance of

irregularity1483

oddness1713

twista1777

quirk1807

the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > abnormality > [noun] > oddness > that which is odd

drollity1639

oddness1713

oddity1739

odd1830

1713 E. Budgell in Guardian 23 Mar. 2/1 I shall be enabled..to introduce several pretty Oddnesses in the taking and tucking up of Gowns.

1738 G. Wheler Let. 17 Jan. in Philos. Trans. 1739–40 (Royal Soc.) (1742) 41 123 Neither of these Solutions would account for the Variety of Oddnesses I have met with.

1751 S. Richardson Clarissa (ed. 3) VII. ii. 18 The dear Extravagant takes a delight in oddnesses.

1812 M. Edgeworth Absentee II. xvi. 407 By bearing with all her dear Mr. Reynolds oddnesses and roughnesses, she might, in time—that is to say, before he made a new will—become..his dear Mrs. Reynolds!

1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt III. xxxvi. 26 It seemed an oddness requiring explanation.

1891 G. Gissing New Grub St. I. iii. 51 They had been speaking almost confidentially, and Marian seemed to become suddenly aware of an oddness in the situation.

1954 W. C. Williams Desert Mus. in Coll. Poems (1986) II. 263 Without the quirks and oddnesses of invention the paralytic is confirmed in his paralysis.

1976 ‘J. Fraser’ Who steals my Name? vii. 89 A tiny little oddness, one of those strange out-of-key facts a policeman is trained to spot.

2001 Guardian (Nexis) 29 June (Features section) 8 Always enjoyable when a foreign comic points out to us our own oddnesses.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	oddness
释义	oddnessn. Brit. /ˈɒdnəs/, U.S. /ˈɑdnəs/ Forms: see odd adj. and -ness suffix. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: odd adj., -ness suffix. Etymology: < odd adj. + -ness suffix. With sense 5 compare oddity n. N.E.D. (1902) gives the pronunciation as (ǫ·dnės) /ˈɒdnɪs/. 1. The quality of being odd (odd adj. 2) or uneven; unevenness of number. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > [noun] > particular qualities > parity > oddness odda1398 oddnessa1398 imparity1646 gnomon1660 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 328^v In euene diuisioun is nouȝt euenenesse medled wiþ oddenesse, nouþer oddenesse wiþ euenenesse. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. iii. 59 The first seemes shorter then the later, who shewes a more odnesse..by reason of his sharpe accent which is vpon the last sillable. 1595 G. Chapman tr. Ovid Banquet of Sence 969 King of the King of Sences..Beauties bewtifier, kinde acquaintance maker, Proportions odnes that makes all things euen. a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) ii. x. §4. 307 Take but One, from Three; and you..destroy the odnesse. 1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) I. 407 The number three, which participates in oddness, excludes the even. 1921 Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 22 25 The evenness or oddness of the integral arguments of the functions in the paraphrase is constant throughout. 1969 Mind 78 49 To give the better explanation of the oddness of a number will be to give necessary and sufficient conditions for its being odd. 1997 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 453 84 At these points, the polarization can have any orientation orthogonal to e..and that this singular behaviour does not violate the overall evenness or oddness. †2. Uniqueness, rarity, singularity. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or extraordinary > [noun] > fact of being unparalleled or unique singlurec1400 oddness1581 unmatchableness1608 peerlessness1611 unmatchedness?1611 incomparability1632 incomparableness1633 inimitableness1660 unparalleledness1665 unparallelness1667 peculiarity1751 uniquity1789 uniqueness1802 unicity1859 phoenixity1886 1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxxix. 188 Oftimes the report of that odnesse which we see not in effect, but heare of in speeche, falles out very lame. 1625 Abp. J. Williams Great Britains Salomon 36 So will I compare these two Kings..that you may see, by the odnesse of their proportion, how they differ from all Kings beside. 1666 J. Davies tr. C. de Rochefort Hist. Caribby-Islands 127 So neatly made, that the eye cannot be cloy'd with considering the odness of their shapes. 3. Divergence from what is ordinary or usual; strangeness, peculiarity; eccentricity. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > abnormality > [noun] > oddness oddness1611 queerity1711 particularity1712 whimsicalness1715 oddity1739 queerness1748 whimsicality1761 singularity1768 quizzity1788 eccentricity1794 quizziness1798 queerishness1803 fantasticness1825 rumness1840 weirdness1869 quirkiness1870 rumminess1872 whimsiness1909 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Bigearrure,..odnesse of humor, fantasticalnesse. 1700 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding (new ed.) ii. xxxiii. 224 Instances of this kind are so plentiful every where, that if I add one more, it is only for the pleasant oddness of it. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 7. ¶1 I was Reflecting with my self on the Odness of her Fancy. 1760 S. Fielding Ophelia I. xiii. 90 The Oddness of the Event, would make People curious. 1832 W. Macgillivray Trav. & Researches A. von Humboldt xxii. 315 The oddness of the dresses of the principal personages. 1876 W. C. Russell Is he the Man? I. 51 In his oddness a characteristical flavour which a girl would relish. 1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage xv. 58 He..appeared not to notice any oddness in being addressed as Mr. Perkins. 1972 Language 48 314 This is to be expected if the oddness or normalness of a given stress contour depends partly on the speaker's ability to provide a satisfactory context. 1997 Guardian 15 May ii. 10/3 Tales of Chandler's Hollywood period, all centring on the oddness of the arrival of this tweedy, pipe-smoking figure..in this dream factory. †4. Lack of congruity or harmony, irregularity. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > [noun] discordance1340 variancec1374 discorda1387 disconvenience?a1425 unsuingc1425 disaccordancec1436 unaccordancec1449 inconveniencec1460 discrepancea1464 difformness1547 disagreeance1548 disagreeing1548 jar1548 disagreement1551 disagreeableness1570 dissonancy1584 discordancy1587 discoherencea1600 disconveniency1601 disharmonya1602 dissent1603 dissonancea1604 incongruency1604 incongruence1610 incongruity1612 discongruity1624 inconformity1625 discorrespondencya1641 inconsonancy1650 inconsistence1651 dissidy1657 unagreeableness1658 discomposure1659 disconsonancy1659 uncorrespondency1659 inconveniency1662 unconsonancy1665 incorrespondence1667 oddness1680 inconsistency1699 incongruousness1727 irreconcilementa1737 discrepancy1748 incoincidence?1798 inaccordance1808 inconsonance1811 inaccordancy1817 incorrespondency1817 cacophony1831 divergence1837 disaccord1871 1680 T. Otway Orphan iv. 48 In my house I only meet with oddness and disorder. 5. As a count noun: an odd thing or characteristic; an oddity; a peculiarity; †an irregularity, a discrepancy (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > [noun] > instance of irregularity1483 oddness1713 twista1777 quirk1807 the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > abnormality > [noun] > oddness > that which is odd drollity1639 oddness1713 oddity1739 odd1830 1713 E. Budgell in Guardian 23 Mar. 2/1 I shall be enabled..to introduce several pretty Oddnesses in the taking and tucking up of Gowns. 1738 G. Wheler Let. 17 Jan. in Philos. Trans. 1739–40 (Royal Soc.) (1742) 41 123 Neither of these Solutions would account for the Variety of Oddnesses I have met with. 1751 S. Richardson Clarissa (ed. 3) VII. ii. 18 The dear Extravagant takes a delight in oddnesses. 1812 M. Edgeworth Absentee II. xvi. 407 By bearing with all her dear Mr. Reynolds oddnesses and roughnesses, she might, in time—that is to say, before he made a new will—become..his dear Mrs. Reynolds! 1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt III. xxxvi. 26 It seemed an oddness requiring explanation. 1891 G. Gissing New Grub St. I. iii. 51 They had been speaking almost confidentially, and Marian seemed to become suddenly aware of an oddness in the situation. 1954 W. C. Williams Desert Mus. in Coll. Poems (1986) II. 263 Without the quirks and oddnesses of invention the paralytic is confirmed in his paralysis. 1976 ‘J. Fraser’ Who steals my Name? vii. 89 A tiny little oddness, one of those strange out-of-key facts a policeman is trained to spot. 2001 Guardian (Nexis) 29 June (Features section) 8 Always enjoyable when a foreign comic points out to us our own oddnesses. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1398
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