eccentricity
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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 runs in my family and all the men seem to die very young," he says, almost relishing the prospect.
From The Guardian • Jul. 22, 2010
Eccentricity," Brooks remarked, "is, of course, the only obvious explanation of his generosity so far as I am concerned.
From A Prince of Sinners by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
Vocabulary lists containing eccentricity
Over The Moon: Planetary Vocabulary
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The Things They Carried
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