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Bach-Møller and Jørgensen started by gathering the full sample of exoplanets for which researchers have already measured or estimated orbital eccentricities.

The key piece of their analysis, published in a paper in October in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, is “orbital eccentricity.”

Some people shrug these off as the eccentricities often associated with brilliance.

From Fortune

First, we quantified the egg shapes of more than 1,400 species by determining an egg’s eccentricity — how far it deviates from a sphere — and asymmetry.

Bond says that the discovery raises more questions that may ultimately help us understand the evolution of pufferfishes, a group already awash in eccentricities.

Undoubtedly, the enormous inherited fortunes of the aristocracy facilitated a certain eccentricity.

But Jenkins concedes that eccentricity is not what it once was.

Both his genius and his eccentricity are on full display in the Declaration of Independence.

“I adore them, I find them so hilarious, full of eccentricity, and full of faults,” she tells The Daily Beast in French.

The most interesting part of eccentricity may be just how wasteful it usually is.

Fashion—Do not be too submissive to the dictates of fashion; at the same time avoid oddity or eccentricity in your dress.

He was a man of great learning and eccentricity, and devoted his long life to laborious study.

Wear what is becoming to yourself, and only bow to fashion enough to avoid eccentricity.

I must add, by way of an eccentricity, his admiration for Dargomijskys Roussalka.

He has all the eccentricity of Rowland Hill, manifested only in a very different manner.

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On this page you'll find 70 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to eccentricity, such as: foible, idiosyncrasy, peculiarity, quirk, weirdness, and aberration.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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