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Discover LudwigThe word "eccentricity" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe someone who behaves in an unusual way, or to refer to the property of a physical object, such as an orbit. For example, you could say "The eccentricity of the comet's orbit made it hard to predict its course."
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eccentricity
noun
The quality of being eccentric; any eccentric behaviour.
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We are on set of the movie Frank, an eccentric comedy about an eccentric rock band led by a man who has wandered off the spectrum of eccentricity and into mental illness.
All the best stories about his eccentricity - and there were many - were first told, and no doubt embellished, by Longford himself.
Peak sleeps Hodgkinson's Hotel, Matlock Bath A grand Georgian affair decorated with engaging eccentricity.
But while Lynch and Miller always remained down to earth, something about bonds seems to encourage eccentricity, from the trading desk to the ranks of bond managers.
One of the oddballs that Sarah picks up on her way through the Labyrinth, what Sir Didymus lacks in sense of smell, he makes up for in eccentricity.
"There's an eccentricity, if you go to the root of the word, of being outside of a circle.
While the show remained recognisably De la Renta, Galliano's handwriting was clearly visible in many elements: from the confident eccentricity and sinuous movement of the jewel-coloured stretch flannel skirt-suits topped with theatrical lampshade-cloche hats, to the liquid slink of a bias-cut velvet gown in poison green.
If you extrude the Manganishness of Stephen Mangan, force his restless intellectualism through a filter of higher eccentricity, you quickly arrive at Noel Fielding, who reached the public imagination with a stand-up comedy routine that involved him covering his face in shaving foam and pretending to be the moon.
But there is usually method in his eccentricity.
So, where does this leave "American Hustle", rich with eccentricity, belly-aching laughter and much-loved performers, but low on edification?
Inevitably, disaster awaits.For a film riffing on eccentricity, in the end "Frank" takes quite a conventional path, bundling the Soronprfbs off to the Texas SXSW festival, where the frontman is unmasked in more ways than one and where Jon learns the requisite lessons about love, life and mental illness.But if the form feels more provincial than the subject, no matter.
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