Sentence examples for oddness from inspiring English sources

The word "oddness" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a quality that is unusual, peculiar, or surprising. Example sentence: I couldn't help but notice the oddness of his behavior.

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oddness

noun

The state or quality of being odd.

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The T-assertions may look odd, but their oddness is only skin-deep.

Against this, Ehring has pointed out that to say truly of the 5kg object that "It has the property of weighing 1kg" is at most pragmatically odd, and that, even if this oddness is regarded as unacceptable, to avoid it would not require the considerable complication of one's theory of predication imagined by Schaffer (Ehring 2011 88 911).

This superfluity makes for an odd reading of the text; and the oddness is highlighted by the observation that this first formulation of the sceptical problem relies on Kripke's assumption that we have some idea of what a fact is, independent of a statement's being true.

You might think, as she sometimes did, that he was doing something odd in there, but who would have guessed the real oddness of it — that he could not see what he was doing at all.

While it initially sounds odd to say that a thing's operation is its end, the oddness disappears as soon as one realizes that all operations are ultimately reditive.

Fashion loves oddness, and it likes to shock.

She credits the pair's enduring friendship to the uniqe oddness of this schedule: "Nobody else, not even my family, understands that experience apart from Celeste," she laughs.

3038b66e-b45e-4231-bad4-d6e44430f012 Though we academics are often maligned for our perceived stuffiness, academia is in fact teeming with humour, wit, and general oddness.

Some of the terms I collected mingle oddness and familiarity in the manner that Freud calls uncanny: peculiar in their particularity, but recognisable in that they name something conceivable, if not instantly locatable.

Now the racist laws have gone; but so too has much of the oddness of it all.

Is there a consistent underlying explanation for their oddness?

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