idiosyncrasy
noun
a characteristic, habit, mannerism, or the like, that is peculiar to an individual.
idiosyncrasies
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pluralof idiosyncrasy.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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It also suggests Mr. Devine doesn’t fully understand Mr. Sanders’s idiosyncrasies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
What we’re likely to be left with is an adaptation that hits all of the beats of the hundreds of motion picture takes on the story with all of their charms and idiosyncrasies smoothed away.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
Kate Mayne, who is a farmer and the chair of NFU Shropshire, worked closely with the project and said that "local idiosyncrasies... are really important to us as farmers".
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2026
And that might get personal: the astronauts laughed when asked what idiosyncrasies they feared their crewmates might discover.
From Barron's ● Mar. 27, 2026
They had to learn to recognize the same sound or speech unit through all our normal variations in speech volume, pitch, speed, emphasis, phrase grouping, and individual idiosyncrasies of pronunciation.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
