Peculiarity
noun
A strange or unusual feature or habit.
His glasses and bowtie are part of his peculiarity.
Often appears as...
- notice a peculiarity
- an interesting peculiarity
noun
The state or character of being peculiar or unique; uniqueness.
The peculiarity of his character is what makes him so interesting.
Often appears as...
- a marked peculiarity
- natural peculiarity
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Approving
noun
A distinctive attribute or aspect of something or someone.
One peculiarity of the town is the communal dining hall.
Often appears as...
- a particular peculiarity
- observed peculiarity
noun
A strange or unusual feature or habit.
His glasses and bowtie are part of his peculiarity.
Often appears as...
- notice a peculiarity
- an interesting peculiarity
noun
The state or character of being peculiar or unique; uniqueness.
The peculiarity of his character is what makes him so interesting.
Often appears as...
- a marked peculiarity
- natural peculiarity
Usage tips
Approving
noun
A distinctive attribute or aspect of something or someone.
One peculiarity of the town is the communal dining hall.
Often appears as...
- a particular peculiarity
- observed peculiarity
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Not Negative
Peculiarity doesn't always imply something negative; it can showcase charming uniqueness.
Her laughter's peculiarity endeared her to everyone.
Pro Tip 2/3Personality Highlight
Peculiarities often highlight unique personality traits that make people interesting.
His peculiarity of collecting vintage maps fascinated his friends.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Visible
Some peculiarities might not be immediately obvious and can be discovered over time.
Getting to know her, I found the peculiarity of her thinking process.
Pro Tip 1/3Not Negative
Peculiarity doesn't always imply something negative; it can showcase charming uniqueness.
Her laughter's peculiarity endeared her to everyone.
Pro Tip 2/3Personality Highlight
Peculiarities often highlight unique personality traits that make people interesting.
His peculiarity of collecting vintage maps fascinated his friends.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Visible
Some peculiarities might not be immediately obvious and can be discovered over time.
Getting to know her, I found the peculiarity of her thinking process.
Pro Tip 1/3Not Negative
Peculiarity doesn't always imply something negative; it can showcase charming uniqueness.
Her laughter's peculiarity endeared her to everyone.
Pro Tip 2/3Personality Highlight
Peculiarities often highlight unique personality traits that make people interesting.
His peculiarity of collecting vintage maps fascinated his friends.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Visible
Some peculiarities might not be immediately obvious and can be discovered over time.
Getting to know her, I found the peculiarity of her thinking process.
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but remain important today. These brave women, and others like them, went all over the world to prove that the desire to see for oneself not only changes the course of human knowledge, it changes the very idea of what is possible. They used the power of curiosity to try and understand the viewpoints and peculiarities of other places,
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Milton Glaser: How great...
But, we don't have time. And then an experiment -- a little bit about the nature of perspective, where the outside shape is determined by the peculiarity of perspective,
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What in the World is a...
the mating ritual OLOL each species on earth has certain well peculiarities as you might tell from the name of the species itself blue footed boobies are
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The contributions of...
but remain important today. These brave women, and others like them, went all over the world to prove that the desire to see for oneself not only changes the course of human knowledge, it changes the very idea of what is possible. They used the power of curiosity to try and understand the viewpoints and peculiarities of other places,
Video examples
Milton Glaser: How great...
But, we don't have time. And then an experiment -- a little bit about the nature of perspective, where the outside shape is determined by the peculiarity of perspective,
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What in the World is a...
the mating ritual OLOL each species on earth has certain well peculiarities as you might tell from the name of the species itself blue footed boobies are
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Scott Anderson
American Journalist
The peculiarities of my childhood, of constantly moving through so many different cultures, of always being the outsider, may have made me extraordinarily self-sufficient, but it had also bred a certain detachment, a sense that the world was a place to explore rather than truly inhabit. This manifested as a kind of shyness, even timidity.
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Alan Moore
British Writer
Everything you've ever read of mine is first-draft. This is one of the peculiarities of the comics field. By the time you're working on chapter three of your masterwork, chapter one is already in print. You can't go back and suddenly decide to make this character a woman, or have this one fall out of a window.
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Ellen Key
Swedish Writer
Even if national peculiarities in character and in laws occasion differences in the curve which the woman movement describes in the different countries, yet everywhere the movement has had the same causes, must follow the same main direction, and - sooner or later - must have the same effects.
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Johannes Stark
Physicist
The most common and most important result of them is that the nature and size of the effect on corresponding series of different elements are largely an expression of the peculiarity of their atomic structure - or, at least, of the structure of the surface.
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Lynn Coady
Canadian Novelist
Now, as a writer, the whole world is your nail polish display, and what's more, you can help yourself. A thrilling, colourful array of gorgeous human peculiarity revolves before your eyes, and you still can't quite believe it's all yours for the taking.
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Ada Lovelace
English Mathematician
Owing to some peculiarity in my nervous system, I have perception of some things, which no one else has; or at least very few, if any... I can throw rays from every quarter of the universe into one vast focus.
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Christopher Heyerdahl
Canadian Actor
Certainly, anyone whom I've witnessed, who has gone through something horrible and life-changing, has a sense of ironic humor, or an ability to look at the peculiarities of the world and find humor in it.
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Walter Bagehot
English Author
In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.
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Thomas Malthus
English Economist
The main peculiarity which distinguishes man from other animals is the means of his support-the power which he possesses of very greatly increasing these means.
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Isaac D'Israeli
British Writer
The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.
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Scott Anderson
American Journalist
The peculiarities of my childhood, of constantly moving through so many different cultures, of always being the outsider, may have made me extraordinarily self-sufficient, but it had also bred a certain detachment, a sense that the world was a place to explore rather than truly inhabit. This manifested as a kind of shyness, even timidity.
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Alan Moore
British Writer
Everything you've ever read of mine is first-draft. This is one of the peculiarities of the comics field. By the time you're working on chapter three of your masterwork, chapter one is already in print. You can't go back and suddenly decide to make this character a woman, or have this one fall out of a window.
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Ellen Key
Swedish Writer
Even if national peculiarities in character and in laws occasion differences in the curve which the woman movement describes in the different countries, yet everywhere the movement has had the same causes, must follow the same main direction, and - sooner or later - must have the same effects.
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Johannes Stark
Physicist
The most common and most important result of them is that the nature and size of the effect on corresponding series of different elements are largely an expression of the peculiarity of their atomic structure - or, at least, of the structure of the surface.
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Lynn Coady
Canadian Novelist
Now, as a writer, the whole world is your nail polish display, and what's more, you can help yourself. A thrilling, colourful array of gorgeous human peculiarity revolves before your eyes, and you still can't quite believe it's all yours for the taking.
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Ada Lovelace
English Mathematician
Owing to some peculiarity in my nervous system, I have perception of some things, which no one else has; or at least very few, if any... I can throw rays from every quarter of the universe into one vast focus.
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Christopher Heyerdahl
Canadian Actor
Certainly, anyone whom I've witnessed, who has gone through something horrible and life-changing, has a sense of ironic humor, or an ability to look at the peculiarities of the world and find humor in it.
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Walter Bagehot
English Author
In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.
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Thomas Malthus
English Economist
The main peculiarity which distinguishes man from other animals is the means of his support-the power which he possesses of very greatly increasing these means.
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Isaac D'Israeli
British Writer
The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.
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