curio, curiosity, oddity, oddment, peculiarity, rarity
(noun) something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting
oddity, queerness, quirk, quirkiness, crotchet
(noun) a strange attitude or habit
oddity, oddness
(noun) eccentricity that is not easily explained
Source: WordNet® 3.1
oddity (plural oddities)
An odd or strange thing or opinion.
A strange person; an oddball.
Strangeness.
• (strange thing): irregularity, outlier; see also anomaly
• (strange opinion)
• (strange person): kook, oddball, odd duck, weirdo; see also strange person
• (strangeness): oddness, rumness, weirdness; see also strangeness
Source: Wiktionary
Odd"i*ty, n.; pl. Oddities (.
1. The quality or state of being odd; singularity; queerness; peculiarity; as, oddity of dress, manners, and the like. That infinitude of oddities in him. Sterne.
2. That which is odd; as, a collection of oddities.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 January 2025
(adjective) capable of being split or cleft or divided in the direction of the grain; “fissile crystals”; “fissile wood”
Coffee starts as a yellow berry, changes into a red berry, and then is picked by hand to harvest. The red berry is de-shelled through a water soaking process and what’s left inside is the green coffee bean. This bean then dries in the sun for 3-5 days, where it is then packed and ready for sale.
