Idiosyncratic
adjective
Specific and unique to an individual or group.
His teaching methods are quite idiosyncratic, but very successful.
Often appears as...
- idiosyncratic behavior
- idiosyncratic style
adjective
Relating to peculiar or individual phenomena.
An idiosyncratic reaction to the drug is extremely rare
Often appears as...
- idiosyncratic reaction
- idiosyncratic response
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Formal
Medical
adjective
Characteristic or typical of a particular person or thing.
His writing is immensely readable and fully idiosyncratic
Often appears as...
- idiosyncratic writing
- idiosyncratic interpretation
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Literary
adjective
Specific and unique to an individual or group.
His teaching methods are quite idiosyncratic, but very successful.
Often appears as...
- idiosyncratic behavior
- idiosyncratic style
adjective
Relating to peculiar or individual phenomena.
An idiosyncratic reaction to the drug is extremely rare
Often appears as...
- idiosyncratic reaction
- idiosyncratic response
Usage tips
Formal
Medical
adjective
Characteristic or typical of a particular person or thing.
His writing is immensely readable and fully idiosyncratic
Often appears as...
- idiosyncratic writing
- idiosyncratic interpretation
Usage tips
Literary
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Personal Flair
Often suggests a unique way someone does something, which might seem unusual to others.
Her idiosyncratic decorating turned her home into a one-of-a-kind art piece.
Pro Tip 2/3Unexpected Success
It can imply that an unusual method or style unexpectedly leads to positive results.
Despite his idiosyncratic techniques, or perhaps because of them, his results were outstanding.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Negative
It doesn’t automatically mean something is bad, just different from the norm.
She took idiosyncratic notes during lectures, full of sketches and shorthand.
Pro Tip 1/3Personal Flair
Often suggests a unique way someone does something, which might seem unusual to others.
Her idiosyncratic decorating turned her home into a one-of-a-kind art piece.
Pro Tip 2/3Unexpected Success
It can imply that an unusual method or style unexpectedly leads to positive results.
Despite his idiosyncratic techniques, or perhaps because of them, his results were outstanding.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Negative
It doesn’t automatically mean something is bad, just different from the norm.
She took idiosyncratic notes during lectures, full of sketches and shorthand.
Pro Tip 1/3Personal Flair
Often suggests a unique way someone does something, which might seem unusual to others.
Her idiosyncratic decorating turned her home into a one-of-a-kind art piece.
Pro Tip 2/3Unexpected Success
It can imply that an unusual method or style unexpectedly leads to positive results.
Despite his idiosyncratic techniques, or perhaps because of them, his results were outstanding.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Negative
It doesn’t automatically mean something is bad, just different from the norm.
She took idiosyncratic notes during lectures, full of sketches and shorthand.
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Who are you, really? The...
It's important that we know this. Is that all we are? Are we just a bunch of traits? No, we're not. Remember, you're like some other people and like no other person. How about that idiosyncratic you?
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Taking imagination...
this ancient idiosyncratic handcraft into something machine operators could produce so we had to create one three years and two children later we raised this 50 thousand square-foot lace net it
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Who are you, really? The...
It's important that we know this. Is that all we are? Are we just a bunch of traits? No, we're not. Remember, you're like some other people and like no other person. How about that idiosyncratic you?
Video examples
Taking imagination...
this ancient idiosyncratic handcraft into something machine operators could produce so we had to create one three years and two children later we raised this 50 thousand square-foot lace net it
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Quote examples
Paul Di Filippo
American Writer
Just as our solar system has a certain idiosyncratic assortment of planets and moons, different from any neighboring system yet categorically equivalent, so each distinct period of human history might have special qualities and individuals, characteristics and events, yet still be essentially akin beneath the surface to all the others.
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Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Indian Scientist
When I speak of artistic universals, I am not denying the enormous role played by culture. Obviously culture plays a tremendous role, otherwise you wouldn't have different artistic styles - but it doesn't follow that art is completely idiosyncratic and arbitrary, either, or that there are no universal laws.
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Hannah Gadsby
Australian Comedian
Nanette' has been a journey. She went from being something of a personal little blast to the world from me, that I expected would seal me off into the margins as far as my career is concerned, and into an idiosyncratic sort of life beyond all of that.
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Ben Dolnick
American Writer
Books like Munro's are so deeply personal and idiosyncratic that it feels like a violation to subject them to the crude business of committee meetings and PR releases; you might as well storm a butterfly den with a klieg light.
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Joe Russo
American Director
We like smashing genres into each other, so if you can find something that's really idiosyncratic in respect to superhero genre and you can smoosh it into it, you usually wind up with something fresh and different.
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Billy Corgan
American Musician
I don't think people are fans of me because I wrote hit songs. I think they're fans because I'm a lunatic or a weirdo. The hit songs came out of my idiosyncratic personality, not the other way around.
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Jonathan Ive
English Designer
When you feel that the way you interpret the world is fairly idiosyncratic, you can feel somewhat ostracized and lonely.
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Noah Baumbach
American Writer
You can be aware that something is idiosyncratic, and give it to a character, but keep doing it.
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Miranda Otto
Australian Actress
In the past, I was always drawn to really quirky, idiosyncratic characters.
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Megan Abbott
American Author
Novels are so interior and idiosyncratic and such a solitary process.
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Paul Di Filippo
American Writer
Just as our solar system has a certain idiosyncratic assortment of planets and moons, different from any neighboring system yet categorically equivalent, so each distinct period of human history might have special qualities and individuals, characteristics and events, yet still be essentially akin beneath the surface to all the others.
Quote examples
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Indian Scientist
When I speak of artistic universals, I am not denying the enormous role played by culture. Obviously culture plays a tremendous role, otherwise you wouldn't have different artistic styles - but it doesn't follow that art is completely idiosyncratic and arbitrary, either, or that there are no universal laws.
Quote examples
Hannah Gadsby
Australian Comedian
Nanette' has been a journey. She went from being something of a personal little blast to the world from me, that I expected would seal me off into the margins as far as my career is concerned, and into an idiosyncratic sort of life beyond all of that.
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Ben Dolnick
American Writer
Books like Munro's are so deeply personal and idiosyncratic that it feels like a violation to subject them to the crude business of committee meetings and PR releases; you might as well storm a butterfly den with a klieg light.
Quote examples
Joe Russo
American Director
We like smashing genres into each other, so if you can find something that's really idiosyncratic in respect to superhero genre and you can smoosh it into it, you usually wind up with something fresh and different.
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Billy Corgan
American Musician
I don't think people are fans of me because I wrote hit songs. I think they're fans because I'm a lunatic or a weirdo. The hit songs came out of my idiosyncratic personality, not the other way around.
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Jonathan Ive
English Designer
When you feel that the way you interpret the world is fairly idiosyncratic, you can feel somewhat ostracized and lonely.
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Noah Baumbach
American Writer
You can be aware that something is idiosyncratic, and give it to a character, but keep doing it.
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Miranda Otto
Australian Actress
In the past, I was always drawn to really quirky, idiosyncratic characters.
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Megan Abbott
American Author
Novels are so interior and idiosyncratic and such a solitary process.
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