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IDIOSYNCRATIC
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Dictionary entry overview: What does idiosyncratic mean?
• IDIOSYNCRATIC (adjective)
The adjective IDIOSYNCRATIC has 1 sense:
1. peculiar to the individual
Familiarity information: IDIOSYNCRATIC used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Peculiar to the individual
Context example:
Michelangelo's highly idiosyncratic style of painting
Similar:
individual; single (being or characteristic of a single thing or person)
Derivation:
idiosyncrasy (a behavioral attribute that is distinctive and peculiar to an individual)
Context examples
Comprises a set of group dynamics whereby a group in which one feels comfortable may override personal habits, individual moral inhibitions or idiosyncratic desires to impose a group norm of attitudes and/or behaviors.
(Peer Pressure, NCI Thesaurus)
At the time, I set it down to some idiosyncratic, personal distaste, and merely wondered at the acuteness of the symptoms; but I have since had reason to believe the cause to lie much deeper in the nature of man, and to turn on some nobler hinge than the principle of hatred.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
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