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.
Odds (dz), n. sing. & pl. [See Odd, a.] 1. Difference in favor of one
and against another; excess of one of two things or numbers over the
other; inequality; advantage; superiority; hence, excess of chances;
probability. "Preëminent by so much odds." Milton. "The fearful odds of
that unequal fray." Trench.
The odds Is that we scarce are men and you are gods.
Shak.
There appeared, at least, four to one odds against them.
Swift.
All the odds between them has been the different scope . . . given
to their understandings to range in.
Locke.
Judging is balancing an account and determining on which side the
odds lie.
Locke.