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There's a certain pattern that exists with geniuses - an eccentricity, a lack of social graces and an inability to really communicate with mere mortals.
John Noble

Meaning of "eccentricity" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ECCENTRICITY

eccentricity  [ˌɛksɛnˈtrɪsɪtɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ECCENTRICITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Eccentricity is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ECCENTRICITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Eccentricity

Eccentricity or eccentric may refer to: ▪ Off-center ▪ Eccentricity, odd behavior on the part of a person, as opposed to being "normal" ▪ Eccentricity of a vertex in a graph ▪ Eccentricity, a parameter associated with every conic section ▪ Eccentric, a wheel that rotates on an axle that is displaced from the focus of the circle described by the wheel ▪ Eccentricity vector ▪ Horizontal eccentricity, in vision, degrees of visual angle from the center of the eye ▪ Orbital eccentricity, in astrodynamics, calculated from orbital state vectors as an absolute value of eccentricity vector or using other methods based on orbital energy and angular momentum ▪ Eccentric anomaly, the angle between the direction of periapsis and the current position of an object on its orbit ▪ Eccentric Club, a London gentlemen's club ▪ Eccentric contraction, the lengthening of muscle fibers ▪ Eccentric, in astronomy, a type of deferent, a circle or sphere used in obsolete astronomical systems to carry a planet around the Earth or Sun ▪ Eccentric position of a surveying tripod to be able to measure hidden points ▪ Eccentric Training...

Definition of eccentricity in the English dictionary

The first definition of eccentricity in the dictionary is unconventional or irregular behaviour. Other definition of eccentricity is deviation from a circular path or orbit. Eccentricity is also a measure of the noncircularity of an elliptical orbit, the distance between the foci divided by the length of the major axis.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ECCENTRICITY


bioelectricity
ˌbaɪəʊˌɪlɛkˈtrɪsɪtɪ
centricity
sɛnˈtrɪsɪtɪ
concentricity
ˌkɒnsənˈtrɪsɪtɪ
egocentricity
ˌɛɡəʊsɛnˈtrɪsɪtɪ
electricity
ɪlɛkˈtrɪsɪtɪ
febricity
fɪˈbrɪsɪtɪ
ferroelectricity
ˌferəʊɪlekˈtrɪsɪtɪ
heliocentricity
ˌhiːlɪəʊsɛnˈtrɪsɪtɪ
historicity
ˌhɪstəˈrɪsɪtɪ
hydroelectricity
ˌhaɪdrəʊɪlekˈtrɪsɪtɪ
lubricity
luːˈbrɪsɪtɪ
magnetoelectricity
mæɡˌniːtəʊɪlɛkˈtrɪsɪtɪ
phallocentricity
ˌfæləʊˌsɛnˈtrɪsɪtɪ
photoelectricity
ˌfəʊtəʊɪlɛkˈtrɪsɪtɪ
piezoelectricity
paɪˌiːzəʊɪlɛkˈtrɪsɪtɪ
pyroelectricity
ˌpaɪrəʊɪlɛkˈtrɪsɪtɪ
sphericity
sfɪˈrɪsɪtɪ
theocentricity
ˌθɪəʊsenˈtrɪsɪtɪ
thermoelectricity
ˌθɜːməʊɪlɛkˈtrɪsɪtɪ
triboelectricity
ˌtraɪbəʊɪlɛkˈtrɪsɪtɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ECCENTRICITY

eccaleobion
ecce
Ecce Homo
eccentric
eccentric anomaly
eccentrical
eccentrically
eccentricities
ecchymosed
ecchymoses
ecchymosis
ecchymotic
eccl.
Eccles
Eccles cake
Eccles.
ecclesia
ecclesiae
ecclesial
ecclesiarch

WORDS THAT END LIKE ECCENTRICITY

authenticity
basicity
capacity
complicity
cytotoxicity
elasticity
ethnicity
felicity
hydrophobicity
modulus of elasticity
monotonicity
multiplicity
nephrotoxicity
periodicity
plasticity
publicity
simplicity
specificity
synchronicity
toxicity
viscoelasticity

Synonyms and antonyms of eccentricity in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «ECCENTRICITY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «eccentricity» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of eccentricity

Translation of «eccentricity» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ECCENTRICITY

Find out the translation of eccentricity to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of eccentricity from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «eccentricity» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

古怪
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

excentricidad
570 millions of speakers

English

eccentricity
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सनक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الانحراف
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

эксцентриситет
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

excentricidade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ছিট
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

excentricité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Sifat eksentrik
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Exzentrizität
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

奇行
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

기벽
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Eccentricity
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

người kỳ dị
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

உருவகம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

विलक्षणपणा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

acayiplik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

eccentricità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

mimośród
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

ексцентриситет
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

excentricitate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

εκκεντρικότητα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

eksentrisiteit
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

excentricitet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

eksentrisitet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of eccentricity

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ECCENTRICITY»

The term «eccentricity» is regularly used and occupies the 59.954 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «eccentricity».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ECCENTRICITY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «eccentricity» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «eccentricity» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about eccentricity

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10 QUOTES WITH «ECCENTRICITY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word eccentricity.
1
Steven Brust
To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.
2
Daveigh Chase
I pay for what I call eccentricity and my will to evolve.
3
Teju Cole
We have for too long been taught that the sight of a man speaking to himself is a sign of eccentricity or madness; we are no longer at all habituated to our own voices, except in conversation or from within the safety of a shouting crowd.
4
Jean Paul Gaultier
My eccentricity became direction.
5
Ben Macintyre
'The Man Who Never Was,' by Ewen Montagu, remains the best book about wartime espionage written by an active participant - incomplete, and dry in parts, it nonetheless summons up the ingenuity and sheer eccentricity of those who played this strange and dangerous game.
6
Suzy Menkes
Minimalism? It is something I appreciate as an art form but leave to others - unless you count a collection of warhorse-workwear Yves Saint Laurent trouser suits. Maybe my penchant for hippie-deluxe eccentricity came from an escapist dream of a different world. It was tough being a working mom in the 1970s.
7
Suzy Menkes
When I look at my clothes, I think of them as an expression of the joy and fun of fashion - with a bit of English eccentricity thrown in.
8
John Stuart Mill
The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
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Randy Newman
My music has a high irritation factor. I've always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was a joke. But I would plead guilty on the grounds that I prefer eccentricity to the bland.
10
John Noble
There's a certain pattern that exists with geniuses - an eccentricity, a lack of social graces and an inability to really communicate with mere mortals.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ECCENTRICITY»

Discover the use of eccentricity in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to eccentricity and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Eccentricity and the Cultural Imagination in ...
What did it mean to call someone 'eccentric' in nineteenth-century Paris?
Miranda Gill, 2009
2
Technologies of History: Visual Media and the Eccentricity ...
Captain Kirk fought Nazis. JFK's assassination is a videogame touchstone. And there's no history like "Drunk History."
Steve F. Anderson, 2011
3
Ordnung & eccentricity
Is it really necessary to pick a boring house color so it can be consistently boring for 20 years? This book puts to bed the prejudice that design is nothing more than gratuitous decoration without any real impact on a client's business.
Thomas Manss, 2002
4
The Portrait of Eccentricity: Arcimboldo and the Mannerist ...
As a measure of excess, variety infringed on unity in the morphology of mannerist eccentricity. Aristotelian action and Albertian narrativity made selection crucial in matters of artistic unity, whose centripetal pull reversed itself in the world of the ...
Giancarlo Maiorino, 2003
5
Who Got Einstein's Office?: Eccentricity and Genius at the ...
Tells about the lives and work of the institute's geniuses, eccentrics, and society of great minds, from Einstein to Kurt Godel to J. Robert Oppenheimer
Edward Regis, 1988
6
Smoking Ears and Screaming Teeth: A Celebration of ...
When breathing gasses under pressure he suffered the smoking ears and screaming teeth of the title. The stories in Norton’s new book are astonishing, disturbing or absurd.
Trevor Norton, 2011
7
Glossary of Mapping Science
It is also called the first eccentricity when it must be distinguished from the second eccentricity. (2) The eccentricity of a surface is the eccentricity (definition 1) of a designated intersection of that surface with a plane. In particular, (a) The ...
American Society of Civil Engineers, 1994
8
Industrial Metrology: Surfaces and Roundness
4.6. Geometric. roundness. parameters. (IS0. 11. 01: 19837. Ext. 1:1983). Eccentricity. The parameter eccentricity (Figure 140) is a roundness term used to describe the position of the centre of a profile relative to some datum point. Eccentricity ...
Graham T. Smith, 2002
9
A Beginner's Guide to Graph Theory
2.2 Radius, Diameter and Eccentricity In this section we introduce some graph parameters related to distance. Suppose G is a connected graph and x is a vertex of G. The eccentricity s(x) of x is the largest value of D(x, y), where y ranges ...
W.D. Wallis, 2010
10
Afro-Eccentricity: Beyond the Standard Narrative of Black ...
In this text, I explore the Standard Narrative of Black Religion and, under the term “Afro-Eccentricity,” critical revisions and alternatives. The Standard Narrative is a common if not a commonsense way of constructing Black Religion. Within this ...
William David Hart, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ECCENTRICITY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term eccentricity is used in the context of the following news items.
1
The Invisible review – passionate legal-aid drama needs cross …
At the same time, there is a Dickensian eccentricity about two characters ebulliently played by Niall Buggy: one is the impoverished Irishman ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
2
Does everyone hate politicians - or can they be popular?
The blessing of affection for creditable eccentricity envelopes him. A different point for seekers after likeability: don't be nasty and don't do irony ... «New Statesman, Jul 15»
3
Sherlock fans rejoice! Official photo of the upcoming special shows …
Add to that the eccentricity of the new material, and we have fans on the internet going overboard. The latest news is the first official photo from ... «Firstpost, Jul 15»
4
Introducing the Handmade issue: are you inking what we're inking?
'High Eccentricity' stool/pedestal, by Studio Libertiny and Brdr Krüger; and 'Neolithic' bar by Studio Mackereth, Royal Salute and Jack Badger. «wallpaper.com, Jul 15»
5
Dazzling Piero, Rehabilitated
... almost certainly to date from a period of illness late in life, or to have been clichéd descriptions of eccentricity lifted from classical literature. «New York Times, Jul 15»
6
Films to CATCH and Films to AVOID This Weekend.
It is not moving in any way, but it is entertainingly off-beam and doolally with an eccentricity and quirky charm that can only described as very ... «moviepilot.com, Jul 15»
7
Neo-Nazis Protesting London's 'Jewification' Meet Their Match
All in all, the counter-demonstration was a rather wonderful example of British multiculturalism and eccentricity. Weaving through the crowd was ... «Jewish Link of New Jersey, Jul 15»
8
Behind the glass with Alex Christofi
It's tolerant to the point of complete indifference to eccentricity.” Currently working on the 'difficult second novel' Alex is optimistic. “It's going to ... «Brixton Blog, Jul 15»
9
'Stop': Review
True to form, the film is full of Kim's eccentricity as he takes matters to the extreme, but akin to One On One, he's more focused on putting ... «Screen International, Jul 15»
10
Armani Privé 'shocks' Paris
The jewelry was bold with notes of eccentricity, part of a collection designed for "rich women who have fun spending, have absorbed and ... «Gazzetta del Sud english, Jul 15»

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