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Unconventional or noticeably different from ordinary behavior or style.

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eccentric

The eccentric inventor used an old piano as a desk.
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One idiosyncrasy of Niko's design notebooks was that every project began with a question written upside down at the bottom of the page. Colleagues found the habit eccentric, though he said it reminded him to turn the first assumption around before drawing.
From Originality With a Purpose.
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