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Antonyms for eccentricities
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : ek-suhn-tris-i-tee, ek-sen- |
Phonetic Transcription : ˌɛk sənˈtrɪs ɪ ti, ˌɛk sɛn- |
Definition of eccentricities
Origin :- 1540s, of planetary orbits; 1650s, of persons (an instance of eccentricity); 1794, of persons (a quality of eccentricity); from eccentric (adj.) + -ity. Related: Eccentricities.
- noun bizarreness, unusualness
- He really is, with all his eccentricities, a very remarkable man, Bertie.
- Extract from : « The Stark Munro Letters » by J. Stark Munro
- And you bear with his eccentricities in hopes of his succession?
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine -- Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 » by Various
- How did they jest with him on his half-crazed notions, and laugh at his eccentricities!
- Extract from : « Arthur O'Leary » by Charles James Lever
- No Costaguanero had ever learned to question the eccentricities of a military force.
- Extract from : « Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard » by Joseph Conrad
- Who knows, among her own eccentricities, if this one might not find place?
- Extract from : « The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) » by Charles James Lever
- It was very bad, but it was clear that they could not interfere with his eccentricities.
- Extract from : « Is He Popenjoy? » by Anthony Trollope
- How did you all excuse his eccentricities before he got sick, Aunt Sajane?
- Extract from : « The Bondwoman » by Marah Ellis Ryan
- Some day perhaps I shall go there, and judge of its eccentricities myself.
- Extract from : « Molly Bawn » by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton
- If either of these had failed, her eccentricities were always there.
- Extract from : « Memoirs » by Charles Godfrey Leland
- The omnipotence of the editor helped the eccentricities of the author.
- Extract from : « Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens » by G. K. Chesterton
Synonyms for eccentricities
- aberration
- abnormality
- anomaly
- caprice
- capriciousness
- foible
- freakishness
- hereticism
- idiocrasy
- idiosyncrasy
- irregularity
- kink
- nonconformity
- oddity
- oddness
- outlandishness
- peculiarity
- queerness
- quirk
- singularity
- strangeness
- unconventionality
- unorthodoxness
- waywardness
- weirdness
- whimsicality
- whimsicalness
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