0 an unusual way of behaving or thinking that is peculiar to a particular person -- idiosinkrasi
You’ll soon get used to his little idiosyncrasies.
1 an unusual or peculiar feature of something -- idiosinkrasi
External factors may contradict and interact, or be overruled by language particular idiosyncrasies.
In short, the procedure chosen here allows for the comparison of word categories between subjects, but might conceal idiosyncrasies in word use.
Combined with the category-specific rules, a morphological grammar for every category (not including idiosyncrasies) is obtained.
Photographs can reveal the material richness of artifacts that we often dismiss as cliché, and enable kitsch and local idiosyncrasy to appear mythical and strange.
These studies also, but not always, have nation-specific idiosyncrasies although the study of colonialism is by nature comparative or cross-national.
For the first time it struck me that my work with clinicians might not be a personal idiosyncrasy.
Second, nonnative speakers were able to show differences in reading time on the other types of grammatical idiosyncrasies tested.
But each geological period has its own highlights and idiosyncrasies of insect diversification and extinction.
