idiosyncrasies
Meaning of idiosyncrasies
- a mode of behaviour or way of thought peculiar to an individual.
one of his little idiosyncrasies was always preferring to be in the car first
- an abnormal physical reaction by an individual to a food or drug.
early 17th century (originally in the sense ‘physical constitution peculiar to an individual’): from Greek idiosunkrasia, from idios ‘own, private’ + sun ‘with’ + krasis ‘mixture’.
Information about idiosyncrasies
- It is a name.
- The singular form of idiosyncrasies is: idiosyncrasy.
- Languages in which idiosyncrasies is used:
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Hyphenation of idiosyncrasies
idio-syn-cra-sies
- It consists of 4 syllables and 14 chars.
- idiosyncrasies is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
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