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Idiosyncratic   /ɪdioʊsɪnkrˈætɪk/   Listen
Idiosyncratic

adjective
1.
Peculiar to the individual.  "Michelangelo's highly idiosyncratic style of painting"





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"Idiosyncratic" Quotes from Famous Books



... salaam convulsions; from cerebral monoplegia, and from morphinism; from anaphylaxis, and from neuralgia in the eyeball; from dropsy, and from dum-dum fever; from autumnal catarrh, from coryza vasomotoria, from idiosyncratic coryza, from pollen catarrh, from rhinitis sympathetica, from rose cold, from catarrhus aestivus, from periodic hyperesthetic rhinitis, from heuasthma, from catarrhe d' ete and from hay-fever—good ...
— A Book of Burlesques • H. L. Mencken
... phantasmagoric as the rest, and that fame was as idle as the rumor of the pit? However this may be, his works have come down to us in a condition of manifest and admitted corruption in some portions, while in others there is an obscurity which may be attributed either to an idiosyncratic use of words and condensation of phrase, to a depth of intuition for a proper coalescence with which ordinary language is inadequate, to a concentration of passion in a focus that consumes the lighter links which bind together ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 3, Issue 15, January, 1859 • Various


Words linked to "Idiosyncratic" :   idiosyncrasy, single, individual


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