Idiosyncratic means peculiar to one individual and nobody else. An idiosyncratic style, idiosyncratic spelling, highly idiosyncratic.
It is neutral to admiring of artists and exasperated about systems, and the tone carries all of it. In statistics, idiosyncratic risk is the part specific to one company that diversification removes.
1adjectiveidiosyncraticPeculiar to one individual and nobody else.
“He has an idiosyncratic way of spelling, and he never uses capital letters.”
idiosyncratic is a quality.
idioSYNCratic → out of SYNC with everyone else
One habit that is out of sync with everyone else's, and it belongs to nobody but you.
hooks ontosync
From idiosyncrasy, from Greek idios, one's own, plus synkrasis, a mixing.
Ancient Greek
ἰδιοσυγκρασία — one’s own temperament
English
idiosyncrasy
English, today
idiosyncratic
Built from
From idiosyncrasy + ic. by surface analysis, idio- + syn- + -cratic. idiosyncrasy First attested in 1604, in modern sense since 1665, from Ancient Greek ἰδιοσυγκρασία (“one’s own temperament”), from ἴδιος (“one’s own”) + σύν (“together”) + κρᾶσις (“temperament”). by surface analysis, idio- + syn- + -crasy.
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