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IDIOSYNCRASY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does idiosyncrasy mean? 

IDIOSYNCRASY (noun)
  The noun IDIOSYNCRASY has 1 sense:

1. a behavioral attribute that is distinctive and peculiar to an individualplay

  Familiarity information: IDIOSYNCRASY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


IDIOSYNCRASY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A behavioral attribute that is distinctive and peculiar to an individual

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

foible; idiosyncrasy; mannerism

Hypernyms ("idiosyncrasy" is a kind of...):

distinctiveness; peculiarity; speciality; specialness; specialty (a distinguishing trait)

Derivation:

idiosyncratic (peculiar to the individual)


 Context examples 


That's all we've got, said my aunt; with whom it was an idiosyncrasy, as it is with some horses, to stop very short when she appeared to be in a fair way of going on for a long while.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)



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