as in characteristic
an odd or peculiar habit
one of the woman's eccentricities was her lifelong habit of reading while soaking in the bathtub for hours
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Recent Examples of eccentricity
Menswear plays a large role in the film, and Bellizzi aimed to root Marty’s eccentricity through his suiting.
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Kristen Tauer, Footwear News, 22 Dec. 2025
The idiosyncratic characters that feel so unmistakably real in Brooks’ best work, right down to their quirkiest eccentricities, are pretty much nowhere to be found in this script.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 10 Dec. 2025
Nile, like Durst, is the prototypical bad seed, whose violent eccentricities present a threat to his family’s real-estate dynasty.
—Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2025
And while my father, as the son and heir, could be allowed his eccentricities, my mother was another matter.
—Daisy Rockwell, Vogue, 27 Nov. 2025
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But there are other factors that needled their way into the evolutionary development of dormancy characteristics.—
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There’s no single definition in our modern times, but experts generally agree on a few characteristics.—
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This dish will do the trick with crispy chicken and fresh zucchini tossed in a tender linguine with a robust lemon flavor.—
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But even an invitation to hang out again, perhaps paired with a gift card to a local lunch spot, could do the trick.—
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By examining liver cells as the disease progressed, researchers saw that healthy liver functions slowly shut down and survival traits took over.—
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The Louisville transfer features the size (6-6, 325), length and explosive traits NFL defensive coordinators covet and QBs usually lose sleep over.—
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The guide recommended giving her some fun idiosyncrasies.—
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In effect, Jarmusch is standing Tolstoy on his head and suggesting that unhappy families share common forms of misery, whereas the happy ones are happy precisely because of their differences—because of the idiosyncrasies that place them outside convention.—
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The technology will only get more polished, the mannerisms more finely calibrated, the over-all effect more persuasive.—
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Not just losing the height, but the mannerisms.—
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One shocking quirk will apply to far more new car buyers than many would imagine.—
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This isn’t just a quirk of modern politics.—
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Crucially, none of these new singularity candidates has been proved.—
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Helping disabled people regain autonomy, building a device for consumers to play video games, or mitigating the singularity, a theoretical future in which artificial intelligence has surpassed human intelligence?—
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Caillaux, by the way, is spelled C-A-I-L-L-A-U-X for those unfamiliar with the peculiarities of French pronunciation.—
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One senses that there may have been more to the woman’s silence than awestruck agreement, but Bergler cheerfully adds her to his portfolio of case studies, in which patients’ sartorial peculiarities are unfailingly traced to episodes from their pasts.—
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“Eccentricity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eccentricity. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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