idiosyncratic
C2
adj
Freq #66836
Meanings
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1
adj
peculiar to the individual
we all have our own idiosyncratic gestures
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2
adj
Peculiar to a specific individual; eccentric.
At the time, I set it down to some idiosyncratic, personal distaste […] but I have since had reason to believe the cause to lie much deeper in the nature of man.
Etymology
From idiosyncrasy + -ic. By surface analysis, idio- + syn- + -cratic.