In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
oddity, oddness
(noun) eccentricity that is not easily explained
oddness
(noun) the parity of odd numbers (not divisible by two)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
oddness (countable and uncountable, plural oddnesses)
(uncountable) The state or quality of being odd.
(countable) The result or product of being odd.
• (the state or quality of being odd): oddity, weirdness; see also strangeness
• Seddons, soddens
Source: Wiktionary
Odd"ness, n.
1. The state of being odd, or not even. Take but one from three, and you not only destroy the oddness, but also the essence of that number. Fotherby.
2. Singularity; strangeness; eccentricity; irregularity; uncouthness; as, the oddness of dress or shape; the oddness of an event. Young.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
10 April 2025
(adjective) capable of being extinguished or killed; “an extinguishable fire”; “hope too is extinguishable”
In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.