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eccentricityec‧cen‧tri‧ci‧ty /ˌeksenˈtrɪsəti, -sən-/ noun (plural eccentricities) - In his films, Levinson chronicled Baltimore's eccentricities and charms.
- Britain's eccentricity is not entirely harmless.
- Halley's comet has an eccentricity of about 0.9675 permitting it to visit us every 76 years.
- His father, fortunately, had certain eccentricities.
- Jane had always thought that an eccentricity but now it occurred to her that it was what a spy would do.
- The class, used to his eccentricities, waited patiently.
- There was a grotesque inventiveness, a deliberate eccentricity in the idea of the cuckoo clock that Melanie had never encountered.
- Without stage drama, her eccentricity blossomed, and drew Jack and Rob into it.
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