You searched for: “eccentricity”
eccentricity (s) (noun), eccentricities (pl)
The quality of being strange or unusual in one's behavior: Some people are not very tolerant of Donald's eccentricity as a politician.

Mildred's talking to her flowers everyday is just one of her eccentricities.

Peculiar behavior or abnormal actions.
© ALL rights are reserved.

Go to this Word A Day Revisited Index
so you can see more of Mickey Bach's cartoons.

This entry is located in the following units: centro-, centr-, centri-, kentro- (page 5) ex-, ec-, e- (page 1) -ity (page 7)
Word Entries at Get Words: “eccentricity”
eccentricity
A parameter of a conic section which describes how much it deviates from a perfect circle, whose eccentricity is zero.

An ellipse has an eccentricity between zero and one, a parabola has an eccentricity equal to one, whereas hyperbolae have eccentricities exceeding one.

This entry is located in the following unit: Astronomy and related astronomical terms (page 9)