different between oddity vs craze
oddity
English
Etymology
odd +? -ity
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??d?ti/
Noun
oddity (plural oddities)
- An odd or strange thing or opinion.
- A strange person; an oddball.
- Strangeness.
Synonyms
- (strange thing): irregularity, outlier; see also Thesaurus:anomaly
- (strange opinion):
- (strange person): kook, oddball, odd duck, weirdo; see also Thesaurus:strange person
- (strangeness): oddness, rumness, weirdness; see also Thesaurus:strangeness
Translations
oddity From the web:
- oddity meaning
- oddity what so not
- oddity what does it mean
- what is oddity in news
- what is oddity in journalism
- what space oddity about
- odditymall
- what is oddity task
craze
English
Alternative forms
- crase, craise, craize (dialectal)
Etymology
From Middle English crasen (“to crush, break, break to pieces, shatter, craze”), from Old Norse *krasa (“to shatter”), ultimately imitative.
Cognate with Danish krase (“to crack, crackle”), Swedish krasa (“to crack, crackle”), Norwegian krasa (“to shatter, crush”), Icelandic krasa (“to crackle”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?e?z/
- Rhymes: -e?z
Noun
craze (plural crazes)
- (archaic) craziness; insanity.
- A strong habitual desire or fancy.
- A temporary passion or infatuation, as for some new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; a fad
- 2012, Alan Titchmarsh, The Complete Countryman: A User's Guide to Traditional Skills and Lost Crafts
- Winemaking was a huge craze in the 1970s, when affordable package holidays to the continent gave people a taste for winedrinking, but the recession made it hard to afford off-license prices back home.
- 2012, Alan Titchmarsh, The Complete Countryman: A User's Guide to Traditional Skills and Lost Crafts
- (ceramics) A crack in the glaze or enamel caused by exposure of the pottery to great or irregular heat.
Derived terms
- becraze
- crazy
Translations
Verb
craze (third-person singular simple present crazes, present participle crazing, simple past and past participle crazed)
- (archaic) To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit.
- To derange the intellect of; to render insane.
- 1663, John Tillotson, The Wisdom of being Religious
- any man […] that is crazed and out of his wits
- 1663, John Tillotson, The Wisdom of being Religious
- To be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed; to rave; to become insane.
- (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See crase.
- (transitive, intransitive) To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery.
Translations
References
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- Rezac
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