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eccentricity

[ek-suhn-tris-i-tee, ek-sen-] / ˌɛk sənˈtrɪs ɪ ti, ˌɛk sɛn- /


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Eccentricity level: Pretty levelheaded, although who’s to say whether her relationship with her difficult mother didn’t inspire unseen neuroses that led her to turn to pen and paper.

From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2020

Eccentricity and consistency don’t always get along, and Bouley is a slightly eccentric restaurant, as Frank Bruni noted the last time it was reviewed in The New York Times, in 2009.

From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2016

Eccentricity is important because when it is high, the Earth- Sun distance varies more from season to season than it does when eccentricity is low.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

Eccentricity is not uncommon among football owners but they are not supposed to look like this.

From The Guardian • Aug. 1, 2014

Eccentricity is the breath of their nostrils, their very existence depends upon it, publicity is essential.

From The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 1 by Furniss, Harry




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