Difference between Oddity and Curiosity

ODDITY vs CURIOSITY: NOUN

A state in which you want to learn more about something
Something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting
A desire to know about people or things that do not concern one; nosiness.
An object that arouses interest, as by being novel or extraordinary.
A strange or odd aspect.
Fastidiousness.
Carefulness; nicety; delicacy; fastidiousness; scrupulous care.
Accuracy; exactness; nice performance.
Curious arrangement; singular or artful performance.
Extravagantly minute investigation.
Fancifulness; extravagance; a curious or fanciful subject.
The desire to see or learn something that is new, strange, or unknown; inquisitiveness.
An object of interest or inquisitiveness; that which excites a desire of seeing or deserves to be seen, as novel or extraordinary; something rare or strange.
Synonyms. Phenomenon, marvel, wonder, sight, rarity.
The state or quality or being curious; nicety; accuracy; exactness; elaboration.
Disposition to inquire, investigate, or seek after knowledge; a desire to gratify the mind with new information or objects of interest; inquisitiveness.
That which is curious, or fitted to excite or reward attention.
A desire to know or learn.

Distinctiveness, Wonder, Tic, Singularity, Uniqueness, Oddment, Crotchet, Queerness, Curiosity, Oddness, Curio, Quirkiness, Rarity, Peculiarity, Quirk

Wonderment, Fascination, Inquisitiveness, Inquiry, Stuff, Scrutiny, Odd, Interest, Curious, Oddment, Rarity, Curio, Peculiarity, Wonder, Oddity

Anomaly, Idiosyncrasy, Strangeness, Oddball, Wonder, Tic, Singularity, Uniqueness, Oddment, Crotchet, Queerness, Curiosity, Curio, Rarity, Peculiarity

Passion, Excitement, Wonderment, Fascination, Inquiry, Stuff, Scrutiny, Odd, Interest, Curious, Oddment, Rarity, Curio, Peculiarity, Wonder

The managing partners thought I was an oddity.
Or whatever oddity you find along the way.
Over time, they have become a cultural oddity.
Here is an interesting oddity of Mother Nature.
At head of title: The latest Ethiopian oddity!
Even then, paper was considered an oriental oddity.
Ling, Space Oddity, When I Live My Dream.
Tales of Terror sounds like a right oddity!
There, he was an oddity in two ways.
The AD group was selectively impaired in oddity judgment for scenes, whereas the SD patients demonstrated a deficit in face oddity judgment only.

Joey, is there a spark of intellectual curiosity.
Curiosity Project: What are real estate pricing alerts?
This is a safe forum for genuine curiosity.
Just bring a camera and your intellectual curiosity.
And they listened to it with great curiosity.
Signature Strength Activities Curiosity: Be a career tourist Approach your career planning as you would approach planning a vacation, with curiosity and anticipation.
IT Curiosity and Initiative Infants and toddlers express curiosity and initiative in exploring the environment and learning new skills.
Instead, however, those in the curiosity contingent condition, where perhaps the most curiosity was elicited, had the lowest scores on the BART.
Critical aspects of science include curiosity and the freedom to pursue that curiosity.
Mystery essentially creates curiosity and curiosity is what draws the audience in.