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/ˌɪdɪəʊˈsɪŋkɹəsi/ · noun
A behavior or way of thinking that is characteristic of a person or a group..
This mode of death had been an idiosyncrasy with his family, for generations past; not often occurring, indeed, but, when it does occur, usually attacking individuals about the Judge’s time of life, and generally in the tension of some mental crisis, or, perhaps, in an access of wrath.
Every village has its idiosyncrasy, its constitution, often its own code of morality.
If he expresses himself such as he is, an idiosyncrasy affected but not annihilated by education, he may say that his books are his own.
She's flying in from Stockholm on Thursday. She apparently has certain sexual idiosyncrasies.
When we situate climax during intercourse as the bullseye, we gate off the idiosyncrasy and experimentation that are the wellspring of sexual pleasure.
The trouble with this question is that it removes the focus from the substance of whatever event or debate is being discussed, redirecting it to the speaker’s or writer’s personal perceptions or expectations about it — away from facts and toward idiosyncrasy.
[…]I have no antipathy, or rather Idio-ſyncraſie, in dyet, humour, ayre, any thing; […].
There are, however, distinct differences between diatheses and idiosyncrasies; diatheses definitely tend to the development of disease, for example the scrofulous diathesis of our forebears favours the onset of tuberculosis; idiosyncrasies are abnormal reactions but do not necessarily dispose to disease.
Use idiosyncrasy when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Idiosyncrasy means A behavior or way of thinking that is characteristic of a person or a group..
Common synonyms include eccentricity, foible, habit, idiocrasy.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
This mode of death had been an idiosyncrasy with his family, for generations past; not often occurring, indeed, but, when it does occur, usually attacking individuals about the Judge’s time of life, and generally in the tension of some mental crisis, or, perhaps, in an access of wrath.
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