idiosyncrasy
pronunciation
How to pronounce idiosyncrasy in British English:
UK [ˌɪdiəˈsɪŋkrəsi]
How to pronounce idiosyncrasy in American English:
US [ˌɪdiəˈsɪŋkrəsi]
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- Noun:
- a behavioral attribute that is distinctive and peculiar to an individual
Word Origin
- idiosyncrasy (n.)
- c. 1600, from French idiosyncrasie, from Greek idiosynkrasia "a peculiar temperament," from idios "one's own" (see idiom) + synkrasis "temperament, mixture of personal characteristics," from syn "together" (see syn-) + krasis "mixture" (see rare (adj.2)). Originally in English a medical term meaning "physical constitution of an individual." Mental sense first attested 1660s.
Example
- 1. Romantic fanciful thoughts and connotative and elegant idiosyncrasy unfold rich an tender feeling .
- 2. Personality is the supreme realization of the innate idiosyncrasy of a living being .
- 3. He suggested that other researchers would need to also run their own tests to verify that the reported link was not " an idiosyncrasy of this particular sample of face images . "
- 4. Regional idiosyncrasy of national art aesthetic has its normal inevitability , while is also in a state of developing and change .
- 5. On the roll play and aesthetic idiosyncrasy of the situation improved in " three were two shoot "