Irregularity vs Eccentricity - What's the difference?
irregularity | eccentricity |
(countable) An instance of being irregular.
(uncountable) The state or condition of being irregular, or the extent to which something is irregular.
(countable) An object or event that is not regular or ordinary.
(countable) A violation of rules.
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.
As nouns the difference between irregularity and eccentricity
is that irregularity is (countable) an instance of being irregular while eccentricity is the quality of being eccentric; any eccentric behaviour.irregularity
English
Noun
- an irregularity of surface
- An investigation of the irregularities in the company's accounts uncovered a large-scale fraud.