idiocrasy
Americannoun
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idiocrasies
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Origin of idiocrasy
1675–85; < Greek idiokrāsía, equivalent to idio- idio- + -krāsia, equivalent to krâs ( is ) mixture ( see crasis) + -ia -y 3; see idiosyncrasy
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To lands, to man, to woman, what is there at last to each, but the inherent soul, nativity, idiocrasy, free, highest-poised, soaring its own flight, following out itself?
From Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman
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