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Synonyms for eccentricity

  • noun

Most common

weirdness oddity strangeness idiosyncrasy anomaly irregularity peculiarity affectation

All synonyms

Noun

idiosyncrasy, strangeness, oddity, weirdness, anomaly, affectation, irregularity, peculiarity, aberration, singularity, kink, waywardness, unconventionality, whimsicality, freakishness, flightiness, abnormality, queerness

Antonyms

concentricity

All antonyms of eccentricity →

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    The quality of being eccentric or odd; any eccentric behaviour.

Forms

Plural
eccentricities → idiosyncrasies, strangenesses, oddities, weirdnesses…

Example sentences

  • weirdness Spiritualness doesn't always equal weirdness.
  • strangeness The strangeness of such a claim forced me to laugh.
  • anomaly Do you consider a tornado an anomaly of nature?
  • irregularity He is the last man to commit an irregularity.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
eccentricityfalling
weirdnessrising
oddityrising
strangenessrising
idiosyncrasysteady
anomalyfalling

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters
kink
6 letters
oddity3
7 letters
anomaly4
9 letters
weirdness2, queerness
10 letters
aberration4
11 letters
singularity5, abnormality5, strangeness2, peculiarity6, affectation4, waywardness, flightiness
12 letters
irregularity6, idiosyncrasy6, whimsicality, freakishness

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (oddity3 = 3 syllables).

In other languages

Français
excentricité
Italiano
eccentricità
Deutsch
Exzentrizität