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odium

/ˈəʊ.di.əm/ UK
/ˈoʊ.di.əm/ US

Sounds like Odiham · Rhymes with -əʊdiəm

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Learned borrowing from Latin odium, from Proto-Italic *odjom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-.

noun odiums

countable, uncountable Hatred; dislike. His conduct brought him into odium, or, brought odium upon him.
countable, uncountable The quality that provokes hatred; offensiveness. She threw the odium of the fact on me.

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"odium." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/odium.

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@misc{odium_2026,
  title = {odium},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/odium},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}