eccentricity

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Strange or unusual behaviour; the quality of being odd.

   His colleagues were amused by his eccentricity, like wearing odd socks to meetings.

2. 2
   noun

   In astronomy and mathematics, a measure of how much an orbit or curve differs from a perfect circle.

   The comet's orbit has a very high eccentricity.

From eccentric + -ity.

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