eccentricity

• Americans have always had a tenuous relationship with the idea of eccentricity, unlike our forebears in England, where eccentrics occupy a hallowed part of the cultural fabric. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
• (Independent) recalls the eccentricity of The Cars and the immediacy of Big Star. —  Insomnia Radio: Indie Music Network
• The result is, that the orbit of any satellite or planet is not always of the same size, but constantly varies, sometimes having a larger circumference than at other times, and sometimes a smaller circumference This change in the size of the orbit of a satellite or planet is known as the eccentricity of the orbit, which eccentricity is constantly changing, being sometimes greater and sometimes less. —  Aether and Gravitation
• I was not fortunate, indeed, in finding that any one even knew of the oddly appointed room; but considering that, owing to the time the house had remained vacant, the existence of this eccentricity could be a tradition only with some casual few, my failure did not strike me as being at all bodeful. —  At a Winter's Fire
• In 28 cases there is more or less frequency of morbidity or abnormality--eccentricity, alcoholism, neurasthenia, insanity, or nervous disease--on one or both sides, in addition to inversion or apart from it. —  Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion

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