idiosyncratic

adjective

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˌɪd.i.əʊ.sɪŋˈkɹæt.ɪk/ / /-ˌsɪŋ-/ / /ˌɪd.i.oʊ.sɪŋˈkɹæt.ɪk/

adj

Etymology: From idiosyncrasy + -ic. By surface analysis, idio- + syn- + -cratic.

Peculiar to a specific individual; eccentric.
“At the time, I set it down to some idiosyncratic, personal distaste […] but I have since had reason to believe the cause to lie much deeper in the nature of man.”
“It was no merely idiosyncratic experience, for the youth had the same: it was love!”