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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Idiosyncrasy \Id`i*o*syn"cra*sy\, n.; pl {Idiosyncrasies}. [Gr. ?; ? proper, peculiar + ? a mixing together, fr ? to mix together; ? with + ? to mix: cf F. idiosyncrasie. See {Idiom}, and {Crasis}.] A peculiarity of physical or mental constitution or temperament; a characteristic belonging to and distinguishing, an individual; characteristic susceptibility; idiocrasy; eccentricity. The individual mind . . . takes its tone from the idiosyncrasies of the body. --I. Taylor. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: idiosyncrasy n : an behavioral attribute that is distinctive and peculiar to an individual [syn: {foible}, {mannerism}]
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