eccentricities

NOUN

bizarreness, unusualness

Synonyms

STRONGEST

foible idiosyncrasy peculiarity quirk weirdness

STRONG

aberration abnormality anomaly caprice capriciousness freakishness irregularity kink nonconformity oddity oddness outlandishness queerness singularity strangeness unconventionality whimsicality

WEAK

hereticism idiocrasy unorthodoxness waywardness whimsicalness

Antonyms

STRONG

conformity normalcy normality regularity sameness standard usualness

WEAK

commonality dullness regularness uniformity usual

Example Sentences

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Williams tried to solve these problems with massive rewriting; the result was “The Eccentricities of a Nightingale,” which puts the main characters in a rather different framework.

From New York Times • May 3, 2018

He directed the original production of Williams’s “The Eccentricities of a Nightingale” on Broadway in 1976.

From New York Times • May 8, 2017

With “The Eccentricities of a Nightingale,” Tennessee Williams’ 1951 revision of his earlier play “Summer and Smoke,” Pacific Resident Theatre in Venice ends its 30th anniversary season on a quietly remarkable note.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2016

Eccentricities that might once have been charming can be unnerving.

From Washington Post • Nov. 15, 2015

Eccentricities of style, artistic trickery, may please the critic of a day, but literature is a story that interests us, boys and girls, men and women.

From Idle Ideas in 1905 by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)