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/ˌɛksəntrˈɪsəti/ Listen

noun

Eccentricity n. (pl. eccentricities)

The state of being eccentric; deviation from the customary line of conduct; oddity.

(Math.) The ratio of the distance between the center and the focus of an ellipse or hyperbola to its semi-transverse axis.

(Astron.) The ratio of the distance of the center of the orbit of a heavenly body from the center of the body round which it revolves to the semi-transverse axis of the orbit.

(Mech.) The distance of the center of figure of a body, as of an eccentric, from an axis about which it turns; the throw.

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Etymology of 'Eccentricity'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... wealth, strength, and beauty, will of course consider him fit and proper to make a woman happy. Yet having regard to the following facts (1) that the aforesaid baron is not merely unstable in love affairs but capricious to the verge of eccentricity, and a winebibber and gourmand to boot; (2) that he is as vain as an Indian prince who takes unto him a wife for the mere pomp and show of the thing; (3) that he is violent and brutal, sparing nobody in his sudden fits of passion and, as the ...

— The Poor Plutocrats • Maurus Jokai

... young minister was right in his disapproval and I was wrong, as I subsequently realized. A few years later I let my hair grow long, for I had learned that no woman in public life can afford to make herself conspicuous by any eccentricity of dress or appearance. If she does so she suffers for it herself, which may not disturb her, and to a greater or less degree she injures the cause she represents, which should disturb her ...

— The Story of a Pioneer - With The Collaboration Of Elizabeth Jordan • Anna Howard Shaw

... great many of Keene's middle-class protagonists are peculiar and exceptional, and much of their humour lies in their eccentricity, they are characters themselves, rather than types of English characters. Are they really observed and drawn from life, do they really exist just as they are, or are they partly evolved from the depths of an inner consciousness ...

— Social Pictorial Satire • George du Maurier

... an imbecile, before he died suddenly in Paris. The Mount Dunstan who succeeded him, having spent his childhood and boyhood under the shadow of the "bad lot," had the character of being a big, surly, unattractive young fellow, whose eccentricity presented itself to those who knew his stock, as being of a kind which might develop at any time into any objectionable tendency. His bearing was not such as allured, and his fortune was not of the order which placed a man in the view of the ...

— The Shuttle • Frances Hodgson Burnett

... you have grown up very much as my trees have, with every natural eccentricity of growth untrimmed; but I hope you will not let your ...

— Ishmael - In the Depths • Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth

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