Eccentricity is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ECCENTRICITY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the state of being eccentric
• the quality of being eccentric
• an eccentric act or habit
• deviation of a curve or orbit from circularity.
• a measure of the extent of deviation from circularity
• The state of being eccentric; deviation from the customary line of conduct; oddity.
• The ratio of the distance between the center and the focus of an ellipse or hyperbola to its semi-transverse axis.
• The ratio of the distance of the center of the orbit of a heavenly body from the center of the body round which it revolves to the semi-transverse axis of the orbit.
• The distance of the center of figure of a body, as of an eccentric, from an axis about which it turns; the throw.
• strange and unconventional behavior
• (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
• a circularity that has a different center or deviates from a circular path
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the quality or state of being eccentric; deviation from an established pattern or norm; odd or whimsical behavior

Words related to ECCENTRICITY

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How to use ECCENTRICITY in a sentence

• They seem to have been notorious for their energy, eccentricity, imagination, and a certain tendency to turbulence and excess.
• There is nothing else in English faintly resembling the astonishing eccentricity and individuality of his style.
• Stories concerning the marquis had come from Paris and Perigny, and travel, the good gossip, had distorted acts of mere eccentricity into deeds of violence and wickedness.
• As usual in such cases, she rose superior to her own eccentricity.
• In this way, he found the limiting values of the eccentricity and inclination for the orbit of each of the principal planets of the system.
• Montagu inherited ability, eccentricity, and personal beauty, from his parents.
• His conversation was extremely vivid and sparkling, and the quaint eccentricity of his manner added to the impression of originality which he produced upon one.
• Their relatives frowned on this eccentricity, traced them out in their hiding-place, and, despite their protestations, separated them, and brought them back.
• Do not suppose for an instant that there was a corresponding alteration in her outward demeanor, or that it displayed any wildness or eccentricity.
• Yet, I must be consistent with my only eccentricity.
• He measured the greatness of the eccentricity of the solar orbit, and a more correct result cannot be obtained.
• You must have a class in which people who have eccentricities can indulge them and in which eccentricity in general will be tolerated and understood.
• There are stories about his behaviour in the House of Conde, which if they are true seem to carry eccentricity beyond the bounds of what is permitted even to a philosopher.
• We must not suppose, however, that he was guilty of the eccentricity of doing this with no other object in view than that of making the observation.
• Whatever is unusual in society is ridiculous, and the merest shade of eccentricity might ruin her prospects.
• In that moment of unnatural excitement he saw all his past as a pale eccentricity.
• He continued to be in the main self-taught and extended his independence in manners and dress perhaps a little beyond the verge of eccentricity.
• Still, whatever eccentricity he attempts, it will be imputed to his deranged understanding.
• The fifth and sixth volumes deal quite largely enough in mere eccentricity to justify the distaste of any reader upon whom mere eccentricity had begun to pall.
• Strange as his habits were, their eccentricity was all upon the side least troublesome to us.
• Whether eccentricity is inseparable from genius we shall leave it to others to determine.
• It serves for eccentricity with reticence, for menace and jealousy.
• But they would have accepted the surprising revelation with well-bred English tolerance for eccentricity, not allowing it to affect their judgment that Mr.
• The sum of real annoyance daily inflicted on a rich and busy but craven-hearted city like New York by the eccentricity of its taxicab organization must be colossal.
• To pass a dish to any one, the governess discovered, was construed as an evidence of mental weakness and eccentricity.
• Given those guarantees, all else that she does which is not actually criminal is eventually put down to mere eccentricity.

Similar words containing ECCENTRIC without suffix ity

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