Idiosyncrasy
[,ɪdɪə(ʊ)'sɪŋkrəsɪ] or [,ɪdɪə'sɪŋkrəsi]
Definition
(noun.) a behavioral attribute that is distinctive and peculiar to an individual.
Editor: Quentin--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A peculiarity of physical or mental constitution or temperament; a characteristic belonging to, and distinguishing, an individual; characteristic susceptibility; idiocrasy; eccentricity.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Peculiarity (of constitution), idiocrasy, peculiar temperament.
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Definition
n. peculiarity of temperament or constitution; crotchet or peculiar view any characteristic of a person.—adj. Idiosyncrat′ic.
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Examples
- The modern world deals with the drama of little things, and the individual idiosyncrasy is caricatured instead of the national policy. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- One idiosyncrasy for which she often apologized, she found it excessively difficult to conquer. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- I acknowledge to this ridiculous idiosyncrasy, as a reason why I would give them a little more play. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- But the mind within was beginning to use it as a mere waste tablet whereon to trace its idiosyncrasies as they developed themselves. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
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