idiosyncratic

idiosyncrasy | American Dictionary

idiosyncrasy
noun[ C ]
us/ˌɪd·i·əˈsɪŋ·krə·si/
a strange or unusual habit, way of behaving, or feature:
One of her many idiosyncrasies is always smelling a book before opening it.

Examples of idiosyncrasy

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Subsequent chapters look in detail at the idiosyncrasies of musical instruments and the difficulties their performers are likely to encounter.
Nor is this idiosyncrasy restricted to the lexical (open-class) categories.
This preoccupation with graphics appears to be nothing short of disciplinary idiosyncrasy.
Naturally, it would be preferable to control for national idiosyncrasies while accounting for the suspected general phenomenon.
Neandertals disappeared, in our opinion largely through absorption, simply because they were peripheral, not because of the idiosyncrasies of their anatomy or of their adaptations.
Here the emphasis was upon the beguiling idiosyncrasies of individual ' characters', and the unexpected twists and turns of a ' plot' generated by their interaction.
But each geological period has its own highlights and idiosyncrasies of insect diversification and extinction.
Second, nonnative speakers were able to show differences in reading time on the other types of grammatical idiosyncrasies tested.
For the first time it struck me that my work with clinicians might not be a personal idiosyncrasy.
These studies also, but not always, have nation-specific idiosyncrasies although the study of colonialism is by nature comparative or cross-national.
Photographs can reveal the material richness of artifacts that we often dismiss as cliché, and enable kitsch and local idiosyncrasy to appear mythical and strange.
Combined with the category-specific rules, a morphological grammar for every category (not including idiosyncrasies) is obtained.
In short, the procedure chosen here allows for the comparison of word categories between subjects, but might conceal idiosyncrasies in word use.
External factors may contradict and interact, or be overruled by language particular idiosyncrasies.
Semantic idiosyncrasies are more characteristic of affixed words than of clitic groups.
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