oddness
nounEtymology From Middle English oddenesse; equivalent to odd + -ness.
1
The state or quality of being odd.
2
The result or product of being odd.
- This humour broke out at first in many little oddnesses: 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 […]1714 August 14 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “TUESDAY, August 4, 1714”, in The Spectator, number 576; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume VI, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
- Neither was he intimate with any of the other bigger boys, who were warned off by his oddnesses, for he was a very queer fellow; […]1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days: