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idiosyncratic
adjective
Distinctive of a particular person or thing, often in an unusual way.
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Her idiosyncratic filing system made perfect sense to her but puzzled the other volunteers.
The artist's idiosyncratic habit of hiding a striped cup in every painting gave viewers a second detail to notice.
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idiosyncrasynoun
A distinctive habit or feature of an individual or thing.
One idiosyncrasy of the old clock was its uneven chime.
One idiosyncrasy of Niko's design notebooks was that every project began with a question written upside down at the bottom of the page.
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