(n.) The quality or state of being odd; singularity; queerness; peculiarity; as, oddity of dress, manners, and the like.
(n.) That which is odd; as, a collection of oddities.
Example Sentences:
(1) He got in a cherry picker for Space Oddity, and managed to sing and dance.
(2) A curious mixture, born in South Africa and living on the Isle of Man, he draws on the oddities of both as a source for gags.
(3) The experiments do not support the attribution to pigeons of a general "oddity concept."
(4) The interest lies in the oddity of this pathology and in the unusual clinical form of dysphagia.
(5) Subjects who had acquired a conceptual oddity rule in the training had a strong tendency to sample hypotheses by the prior rule, but subjects under conditions where a perceptual-oddity rule was relevant tended to make a shift to a cue from new (conceptual oddity) rule.
(6) The cross-modal effect also shows that oddity learning is independent of a specific modality-labeled perceptual context.
(7) The goal felt like an oddity, such was the pattern of the match, with various Arsenal supporters already heading for the exits.
(8) Equalities minister Jo Swinson is right to point out that fathers who take paternity leave, or simply take their turn calling in absent because a child is sick, are often mocked or considered oddities, if not nuisances, in the workplace.
(9) Oddity performance increased over age, with the non-LD children performing consistently better than their LD peers at each age.
(10) Perhaps, suggests the Gemora Sanhedrin, facing up to the oddity of the verse about Ham seeing his father's nakedness, it means either that Ham castrated his father, or that he sodomised him.
(11) Critics feast on Hayley's straight-talking manner, her Oasis trouser suits and her neck scarves, like she's some sort of wondrous oddity.
(12) Profumo was an oddity – a randy politician à la JFK in a dry-balled, homophobic, strait-laced Tory administration.
(13) This paper reviews concept learning in Cebus monkeys, focussing on their ability to use the identity relation, oddity and natural concepts.
(14) When tests displayed identical stimuli, patterns of comparison selection suggested control by generalized identity and oddity.
(15) In 14 patients with secondary odditis, a biopsy of the papilla was studied, in one case encountering moderate peri and intrafascicular fibrosis and in another, erosion of the papillary mucosa with impaction of biliary material.
(16) Although most readers consider medical publications to be somber and somnifacient, a critical eye will discover a remarkable array of absurdities and assorted other oddities, totally unintended by the authors.
(17) Yet while he became fascinated by pomp, power and influence, he remained equally curious about oddity and the simple life.
(18) In July 1969 Bowie released Space Oddity , the song that would give him his initial commercial breakthrough.
(19) Oddity performance was evaluated with both reversal assessments and assessments with new sets of stimuli.
(20) Nineteen mildly or moderately retarded subjects were presented 32 oddity-training trials per day for 10 days with all new etimuli presented on each trial.
Prodigy
Definition:
(n.) Something extraordinary, or out of the usual course of nature, from which omens are drawn; a portent; as, eclipses and meteors were anciently deemed prodigies.
(n.) Anything so extraordinary as to excite wonder or astonishment; a marvel; as, a prodigy of learning.
(n.) A production out of ordinary course of nature; an abnormal development; a monster.
Example Sentences:
(1) Radio remained hostile to electronic dance music unless it had a conventional pop song structure and vocals (as with the Prodigy's punk-rave or Madonna's coopting of trance on Ray of Light ).
(2) Although a weak correlation between urinary calcium excretion and stone number was observed, the cause for prodigious stone formation could not be explained.
(3) He has classical roots in common with Michael Clark, the Royal Ballet prodigy turned punk choreographer.
(4) Jack Charlton, maintaining the remarkable standard of his World Cup performances, had to intervene with a prodigious sweeping tackle on the ground to get them out of trouble.
(5) The periplasmic C proteins (C1 and C2 isoelectric forms) were produced in prodigious quantities from the cloned strains.
(6) Rivals and analysts underestimated his single-minded determination and prodigious work ethic, and overlooked an unofficial campaign that began years before his name went on the ballot papers for the second time.
(7) He kept up a prodigious work rate even when ill. At the height of his activity he was simultaneously writing about politics, wine and television as well as radio programmes, a weekly diary and a stream of books.
(8) Winner of the National Book Award in 1993, Vidal's literary output was prodigious, with more than 20 novels, including the transsexual satire Myra Breckinridge, the black comedy Duluth, and a series of historical fiction charting the history of the United States.
(9) It is suggested that in its myriad roles, ranging from cooking to the prodigious function of sacrifice in human history and psychology, the decisive position of the role of fire in the emergence and development of homo sapiens may conceivably include a significant "overdetermining" position among the multiple elements conditioning the appearance of human speech and language.
(10) They were quick to the ball, strong in the tackle and their workload was prodigious.
(11) The two-year-old artificial intelligence startup was founded by former child chess prodigy and neuroscientist Demis Hassabis alongside Shane Legg and Mustafa Suleyman.
(12) In case his writers are wondering what word to use instead, he offers a "handy list of synonyms" that includes "huge", "prodigious", "elephantine" and the very adult Swiftian term "Brobdingnagian".
(13) Its prodigious collection of print, audiovisual, and electronic information; its imaginative research projects; its excellent outreach program; and its innovative services and products are indispensable to all practicing health professionals, scientists, and medical educators, as well as to journalists, government officials, and others.
(14) Season two crafted complex characters racked with existential ambivalence – heroines marked for the abyss, fragile, flammable outcasts and desolate prodigies, all of whose private pain was as palpable as the crimson bloodbath head witch Evelyn Poole soaks in.
(15) The oral cavity is populated by a prodigious microbial flora that exhibits a unique successional colonization of enamel and subgingival root surfaces.
(16) The only greenery more impressive than the massive trees are the prodigious mosses and lichens hanging from every branch.
(17) Bilic’s side were the more threatening team as the first half wore on and their prodigious work-rate, typified by Mark Noble chasing down a lost cause and winning a corner from James Milner, was impressive.
(18) But Google's acquisition of DeepMind Technologies earlier this year, founded by a former child chess prodigy only two years ago, will be followed by more big-money transactions involving home-grown tech companies.
(19) But the Brits announcement has not come in isolation; it follows the collapse in the last two years of three dance music magazines (Muzik, Ministry and Jockey Slut), the news that London superclub Ministry of Sound's revenues have fallen by more than a third since 2001, and, most recently, the commercial failure of the latest albums from Britain's two biggest dance acts, Fatboy Slim and the Prodigy.
(20) Freud is notable not only for his prodigious output - at any one time he will be at work on five or six paintings and, perhaps, an etching - but for the intense way in which he scrutinises his subjects (he is adamant that they 'affect the air around them', so his sitters must be present even when only the background is being painted).