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Eccentricity vs Levity - What's the difference?

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Eccentricity is a related term of levity.


As nouns the difference between eccentricity and levity

is that eccentricity is the quality of being eccentric; any eccentric behaviour while levity is lightness of manner or speech, frivolity.

eccentricity

English

(wikipedia eccentricity)

Noun

(eccentricities)
  • The quality of being eccentric; any eccentric behaviour.
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  • (mathematics) The ratio, constant for any particular conic section, of the distance of a point from the focus to its distance from the directrix.

    • levity

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • Lightness of manner or speech, frivolity.
  • (obsolete) Lack of steadiness.
  • The state or quality of being light, buoyancy.
  • * F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • * Most of the confidences were unsought - frequently I had feigned sleep, preoccupation or a hostile levity...
  • * Robert Montgomery Bird:
  • * 1869 Mary Somerville, On Molecular and Microscopic Science 1.1.12:
    • Hydrogen ... rises in the air on account of its levity .
  • (countable) A lighthearted or frivolous act.
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