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Oddballs

An eccentric or unusual person.

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noun
  1. 1

    An eccentric or unusual person.

  2. 2

    A deviant stimulus that appears among repetitive stimuli during an experiment, to trigger an event-related potential in the participant.

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eccentricnoun(of a person) Deviating from the norm; behaving unexpectedly or differently; unconventional and slightly strange.
geeknoun(colloquial) A person who is intensely interested in a particular field or hobby and often having limited or nonstandard social skills. Often used with an attributive noun.
eccentric personnouna person with an unusual or odd personality
odditiesnoun(countable) An odd or strange thing or opinion.
odditynoun(countable) An odd or strange thing or opinion.
oddnessnoun(uncountable) The state or quality of being odd.
oddmentsnounA variety of miscellaneous things.
oddestDiffering from what is usual, ordinary or expected.
oddmentnounSomething that does not match the things it is with or cannot easily be categorized; a miscellaneous item.
odd lotnoun(finance) A block of shares of stock that is not a multiple of some number, usually 100.
weirdosnoun(informal, chiefly derogatory) A strange, odd, eccentric person.
odd fishnoun(idiomatic) An unusual thing or eccentric person.
odd fellownounAlternative form of Oddfellow. [A member of a secret order or fraternity established for mutual aid and social enjoyment.]
weirdnessnoun(uncountable) The state or quality of being weird.
unusualnessnoun(uncountable) The condition or state of being unusual.
outliersnounOutliers: The Story of Success is a non-fiction book written by Malcolm Gladwell and published by Little, Brown and Company on November 18, 2008.
unusualNot usual, out of the ordinary.
eccentricsnounOne who does not behave like others.
anomalousDeviating from the normal; marked by incongruity or contradiction; aberrant or abnormal.
weirdonoun(informal, chiefly derogatory) A strange, odd, eccentric person.

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