Quickness of apprehension; active imagination; lively fancy.
A novel or fanciful idea; a whim.
The faculty of conceiving ideas; mental faculty; apprehension.
Design; pattern.
Overly high self-esteem; vain pride; hubris.
An ingenious expression or metaphorical idea, especially in extended form or used as a literary or rhetorical device.
The quality of being eccentric or odd; any eccentric behaviour.
The ratio, constant for any particular conic section, of the distance of a point from the focus to its distance from the directrix.
The eccentricity of the conic section (usually an ellipse) defined by the orbit of a given object around a reference object (such as that of a planet around the sun).