Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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oddity | Yes | No | No | No |
eccentricity | Yes | No | No | No |
oddity (noun) | eccentricity (noun) |
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something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting | strange and unconventional behavior |
a strange attitude or habit | a circularity that has a different center or deviates from a circular path |
eccentricity that is not easily explained | (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 |