oddness

1. 1.

   the parity of odd numbers (not divisible by two)

   Broaderparity
2. 2.

   eccentricity that is not easily explained

   Synonymsoddity

   Broadereccentricity

Other forms of oddness

plural

oddnesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about oddness

What does oddness mean?

oddness means "the parity of odd numbers (not divisible by two)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in oddness?

oddness has 2 syllables: odd-ness. The stress falls on "odd".

What is another word for oddness?

Close synonyms include oddity. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is oddness a common word?

oddness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.