freakishness
71“Amissa Minerva“ — Poem (92 lines); probably written in early 1919. First published in Toledo Amateur(May 1919). A pungent satire lampooning the freakishness of modern poetry, mentioning several poets by name (Amy Lowell, Edgar Lee Masters, Carl Sandburg, etc.) …
72“To a Sophisticated Young Gentleman, Presented by His Grandfather with a Volume of Contemporary Literature“ — Poem (82 lines); written on December 15, 1928. First published in SL2.255–57. The poem was written to accompany a copy of Marcel Proust’s Swann’s Way,which HPL presented to Frank Belknap Long for Christmas. In the course of the poem HPL… …
73freak — noun 1》 (also freak of nature) a person, animal, or plant with a physical abnormality. 2》 [often as modifier] a very unusual and unexpected event: a freak storm. 3》 informal a person who is obsessed with a particular activity or interest: a… …
74whimsicality — n. 1. Whimsicalness, singularity, freakishness, odd disposition. 2. Oddity, whim, caprice, freak …
75freakish — adjective very unusual and strange: freakish behaviour freakishly adverb freakishness noun (U) …
76abnormality — noun 1) born with a heart abnormality Syn: malformation, deformity, irregularity, flaw, defect, anomaly 2) the abnormality of such behavior Syn: unusualness, uncommonness, atypicality, irregularity, anomalousness …
77eccentricity — noun Sidney s eccentricity was more charming than alarming Syn: unconventionality, singularity, oddness, strangeness, weirdness, quirkiness, freakishness; peculiarity, foible, idiosyncrasy, caprice, whimsy, quirk; informal nuttiness, screwiness,… …
78aberration — n 1. deviation, divergence, departure, divarication, divagation, digression, declination, declension; lapse, irregularity, incongruity; waywardness, aberrance, aberrancy; wandering, straying, rambling, deviating, diverging, departing, divagating …
79anomaly — n 1. deviation, aberration, aberrance, aberrancy, divergence, digression, departure, divagation, divarication, Rare. anomalism; abnormality, abnormity, irregularity, variation. 2. nonconformist, deviate, deviant, deviator, radical, heretic,… …
80deviation — n 1. veer, veering, curve, curving, turn, turning, swerve, swerving, bend, bending; tacking, wheeling, wheeling about, swinging about; shift, shifting, switch, switching, shunting, straying, drifting, roving, divagating; digression, digressing,… …
