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idiosyncratic

adj
/ˌɪd.i.əʊ.sɪŋˈkɹæt.ɪk/UK/ˌɪd.i.oʊ.sɪŋˈkɹæt.ɪk/CA/ˌɪd.i.əʉ.sɪŋˈkɹæt.ɪk/

Etymology

From idiosyncrasy + -ic. By surface analysis, idio- + syn- + -cratic.

  1. borrowed from ἰδιοσυγκρασία
  2. suffixed as idiosyncratic — “idiosyncrasy + ic”

Definitions

  1. Peculiar to a specific individual

    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.
    • It was no merely idiosyncratic experience, for the youth had the same: it was love!
    • British Director Ronald Eyre kept the action crisp; he was correctly content to execute the composer's wishes, rather than impose a fashionably idiosyncratic view of his own.

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