Both Uses
eccentric
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The Minister's Black Veil
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- THE MINISTER'S BLACK VEIL A PARABLE[1] [1] Another clergyman in New England, Mr. Joseph Moody, of York, Maine, who died about eighty years since, made himself remarkable by the same eccentricity that is here related of the Reverend Mr. Hooper.†
eccentricity = unconventional or strange behavior
- ...it was reckoned merely an eccentric whim,
*eccentric = unconventional or strange
Definitions:
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(1)
(eccentric) unconventional or strange; or a person with such traits -- often in a way that seems interesting or harmless
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, in technical usage, eccentric can mean "not concentric".