idiosyncrasy

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A behavior or way of thinking that is characteristic of a person or a group.

   “This mode of death had been an idiosyncrasy with his family, for generations past; not often occurring, indeed, but, when it does occur, usually attacking individuals about the Judge’s time of life, and generally in the tension of some mental crisis, or, perhaps, in an access of wrath.”

2. isim A peculiar individual reaction to a generally innocuous substance or factor; a risk factor.

   “[…]I have no antipathy, or rather Idio-ſyncraſie, in dyet, humour, ayre, any thing; […].”

3. isim A peculiarity that serves to distinguish or identify.

   “He mastered the idiosyncrasies of English spelling and speech.”