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Genius with no filter, or madness with great tailoring — depends who's funding you.
means A quality of behavior or personality that deviates from the conventional or expected norm — being charmingly, or alarmingly, off-center.
from Straight from the Greek 'ekkentros,' meaning 'out of the center' — a fusion of 'ek' (out of) and 'kentron' (center, the fixed point of a circle). Originally a term in astronomy, describing orbits that didn't circle the Earth in a neat, perfect ring as expected. By the 1700s, people borrowed the word for human orbits too — those who simply didn't revolve around the same center as everyone else.
- math term
- also measures how squashed an orbit or ellipse is
- class marker
- rich people get called eccentric, poor people get called crazy
- earth's orbit
- eccentricity near zero, basically a circle
- etymology
- literally means off center, from the Greek