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Eccentricity   /ˌɛksəntrˈɪsəti/   Listen
Eccentricity

noun
(pl. eccentricities)
1.
Strange and unconventional behavior.
2.
(geometry) a ratio describing the shape of a conic section; the ratio of the distance between the foci to the length of the major axis.
3.
A circularity that has a different center or deviates from a circular path.  Antonym: concentricity.





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"Eccentricity" Quotes from Famous Books



... went to extremes. It was due to Gnosticism that art and science found an entrance into the Church. It preserved the Church from becoming stereotyped in form; but, built up entirely on ideas and not on historical facts, it died from its own hollowness and eccentricity. ...
— History Of Egypt From 330 B.C. To The Present Time, Volume 11 (of 12) • S. Rappoport
... was one of the most acute and learned bibliographers I have known. He was a man of marked individuality and independent views; with a spice of eccentricity and humor, which crept into all his catalogues, and made his notes highly entertaining reading. Besides his services to the British Museum Library, in building up its noble collection of Americana, and in whose rooms he labored for many years, with the aid of Panizzi and his successors, whom ...
— A Book for All Readers • Ainsworth Rand Spofford
... manner of doing things than this. But we have already said that Eaglenose was an eccentric youth; moreover, he was a Christian, and we do not feel bound to account for the conduct or sentiments of people who act under the combined influence of Christianity and eccentricity. ...
— The Prairie Chief • R.M. Ballantyne
... men call old Christy their "professor of equitation;" and in accounting for the appellation, they let me into some particulars of the Squire's mode of bringing up his children. There is an odd mixture of eccentricity and good sense in all the opinions of my worthy host. His mind is like modern Gothic, where plain brick-work is set off with pointed arches and quaint tracery. Though the main ground-work of his opinions is correct, ...
— Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists • Washington Irving
... past, Madame Deberle had with passionate fervor devoted herself to foreign politics. Her ideas were very pronounced on the various eventualities which might arise; and Pauline greatly annoyed her by her eccentricity in advocating Russia's cause in opposition to the clear interests of France. Juliette's first desire was to convince her of her folly, but ...
— A Love Episode • Emile Zola


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