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idiosyncrasy
distinctive personal habit or characteristic
Synonyms
- quirk
- peculiarity
- eccentricity
Antonyms
- normality
- conformity
- conventionality
idiosyncrasy in a sentence
Her habit of arranging books by color was a harmless idiosyncrasy.
One idiosyncrasy of the novelist was that he wrote every first draft in green ink.
Where it comes from
From Greek idiosynkrasia, meaning 'peculiar temperament.'
Memory hook
IDIO means one's own: an idiosyncrasy is one's own peculiar habit.
Read it in context
- The Unsmoothed Voice Narrative
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