All 4 Uses of
eccentric
in
The Plague
- Then, immediately following these eccentricities of thought and expression, we come on a detailed description of the streetcar service in the town, the structure of the cars, their indeterminate color, their unvarying dirtiness-and he concludes his observations with a "Very odd," which explains nothing.†
Part 1
- harmless eccentricities
Part 1 *eccentricities = unconventional or strange behaviors
- To be precise, he couldn't picture such eccentricities existing in a plague-stricken community, and he concluded that the chances were all against the plague's making any headway among our fellow citizens.†
Part 1
- He was conscious only of his exhaustion, and at the same time was struggling against a sudden, irrational impulse to unburden himself a little more to his companion; an eccentric, perhaps, but who, he guessed, was one of his own kind.†
Part 2
Definition:
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(eccentric) unconventional or strange; or a person with such traits