exceptional vs oddball

exceptional

adj
  • Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare. 

  • Corresponding to something of lower dimension under a birational correspondence. 

  • Better than the average; superior due to exception or rarity. 

noun
  • An exception, or something having an exceptional value 

oddball

adj
  • Exotic, not mainstream. 

noun
  • An eccentric or unusual person. 

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

How often have the words exceptional and oddball occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )