excentricité — meaning in English

English meaning

• eccentricity noun The quality of being eccentric or odd; any eccentric behaviour.
• kink noun A tight twist or bend in something that is normally straight, such as hair, rope, or wire.
• oddity noun A strange or unusual thing, person, or detail.
• quiddity noun The essence or inherent nature of a person or thing.
• quirk noun An odd or unusual habit, feature, or trait.

Senses

excentricité is used for these senses in English:

• quiddity An eccentricity; an odd feature.
• quirk An idiosyncrasy; a slight glitch, a mannerism; something unusual about the manner or style of something or someone.

eccentricity — full definition

1. noun The quality of being eccentric or odd; any eccentric behaviour.
2. noun The ratio, constant for any particular conic section, of the distance of a point from the focus to its distance from the directrix.
3. noun The eccentricity of the conic section (usually an ellipse) defined by the orbit of a given object around a reference object (such as that of a planet around the sun).
4. noun The farthest distance from a vertex to any other vertex.

kink — full definition

1. noun A tight twist or bend in something that is normally straight, such as hair, rope, or wire.
2. noun A small flaw or snag in a plan, system, or process that needs to be fixed before it runs smoothly.
3. noun An unconventional sexual preference or taste.

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