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🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

excentricidad

Pronunciation / Transliteration: excentricidad

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Eccentricity/ˌɛk.sənˈtrɪs.ə.ti/
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"Vivía con cierta excentricidad."

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1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    A tendency to behave in an odd or unconventional way.

    "His habit of wearing mismatched socks was just one of his many eccentricities."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Medieval Latin eccentricus, meaning out of center, stemming from Greek ekkentros (ek- out + kentron center). Originally used in astronomy to describe orbits that do not center on the earth, the word evolved in the 17th century to metaphorically describe human behavior that departs from the conventional center or norm.

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