idiosyncratic
adjective
pertaining to the nature of idiosyncrasy, or something peculiar to an individual.
idiosyncratically
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a word derived from
idiosyncratic.
Example Sentences
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"It's a beautiful script and it is so idiosyncratically English - it's a new old English movie."
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2025
Now imagine trying to combine dozens of idiosyncratically constructed ones with information stretching back decades into one single, clean, useful repository of information.
From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2025
The deceptively simple-looking “Ghost Cat Anzu” is actually idiosyncratically drawn from live-action frames in a rotoscoping process.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2024
Setting aside her application of these terms, though, she also seems to be idiosyncratically turning away from the ordinary way that we use them.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 22, 2021
Imagine that energy, that decentralized and idiosyncratically dispersed pattern of interests, turned loose on the cultural artifacts of the twentieth century.
From The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind by James Boyle
