idiosyncratic

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US /ˌɪd.i.oʊ.sɪŋˈkɹæt.ɪk/ UK /ˌɪd.i.əʊ.sɪŋˈkɹæt.ɪk/
adj Freq #66836

Meanings

  1. 1
    adj

    peculiar to the individual

    we all have our own idiosyncratic gestures

  2. 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.

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