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What (who) is idiosyncrasy - definition

UNUSUAL PERSONAL CHARACTERISTIC
Idiosyncrology; Idiosyncracy; Idiosyncratic; Idiosyncracies; Idiosyncrasies; Peculiarity; Peculiarities; Idiosyncratic risk; Idiosynchratic; IdiosyncratiC; Idiocyncracy; Draft:Idiocyncracy

idiosyncrasy         
n.
Peculiarity (of constitution), idiocrasy, peculiar temperament.
Idiosyncrasy         
·noun A peculiarity of physical or mental constitution or temperament; a characteristic belonging to, and distinguishing, an individual; characteristic susceptibility; idiocrasy; eccentricity.
idiosyncrasy         
(idiosyncrasies)
If you talk about the idiosyncrasies of someone or something, you are referring to their rather unusual habits or characteristics.
Everyone has a few little idiosyncrasies...
= eccentricity, peculiarity
N-VAR: usu with poss

Wikipedia

Idiosyncrasy

An idiosyncrasy is an unusual feature of a person (though there are also other uses, see below). It can also mean an odd habit. The term is often used to express eccentricity or peculiarity. A synonym may be "quirk".

Examples of use of idiosyncrasy
1. She is unchanged and unreformed, every corrosive idiosyncrasy intact.
2. But a further idiosyncrasy of Italy‘s political system is that not all its senators are elected.
3. It was an attractive conversational idiosyncrasy, I thought, at one with Nicolas generally hyper personality.
4. Not long ago, ethical choices were regarded as the idiosyncrasy of people who opted out of consumer society.
5. SPLM certainly is asking for trouble and with time should receive its share of punishment befitting its idiosyncrasy.