IDIOSYNCRASY


Meaning of IDIOSYNCRASY in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Flight crews must become familiar with each airplane's idiosyncrasies.

She's easy to work for, and her employees don't mind her idiosyncrasies.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

As Lyman and Scott explain: Free territory is carved out of space and affords the opportunities for idiosyncrasy and identity.

His judgments were also swayed by preconceptions based on past experiences or even personal idiosyncrasies.

Like they could not wait to abolish her conveniences and idiosyncrasies.

Nor does it provide a rationale for people with questionable motives to vent their hostilities or express their idiosyncrasies.

Normally, harsh discipline was personalized as the idiosyncrasies of those superiors.

The idiosyncrasies of its founding Communist fathers played a role in this key difference.

There were others who remarked that even saints should be permitted an idiosyncrasy or two!

When not trying to match his 15-hour days, they regale each other with endless stories about his idiosyncrasies and absent-mindedness.

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