ISEE/SSAT Vocabulary BuilderWordsIidiosyncrasy
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idiosyncrasy
Meaning: distinctive personal habit or characteristic
idiosyncrasy in a sentence
How idiosyncrasy is used in real sentences:
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.
“Amid that noise, Mara noticed one idiosyncrasy she had nearly erased: the narrator always repeated a word when he was concealing fear.”
— from the passage The Unsmoothed Voice
Synonyms for idiosyncrasy
Other words for idiosyncrasy — quirk, peculiarity and eccentricity — carry the same meaning.
- quirk
- peculiarity
- eccentricity
Antonyms of idiosyncrasy
Words that mean the opposite of idiosyncrasy:
- normality
- conformity
- conventionality
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.
Practice idiosyncrasy in the app