Vocabulary Word
Word: eccentricity
Definition: oddity; idiosyncrasy
Definition: oddity; idiosyncrasy
Sentences Containing 'eccentricity'
But while speaking against fretting after eccentricity, don't let it be assumed that any discouragement is being given to genuine new points of view.
But now, Mr. Croll, in a series of admirable memoirs, has attempted to show that a glacial condition of climate is the result of various physical causes, brought into operation by an increase in the eccentricity of the earth's orbit.
All these causes tend towards the same end; but the most powerful appears to be the indirect influence of the eccentricity of the orbit upon oceanic currents.
There was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, brought in a verdict of 'suicide.'
After all, if these people had strange fads and expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were at least ready to pay for their eccentricity.
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