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idiosyncrasy

noun

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A distinctive habit or feature of an individual or thing.

One idiosyncrasy of the old clock was its uneven chime.
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One idiosyncrasy of Niko's design notebooks was that every project began with a question written upside down at the bottom of the page.
From Originality With a Purpose.
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