idiosyncratic

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  1. Relating or pertaining to idiosyncrasy; of or arising from individual disposition or susceptibility: as, idiosyncratic sympathy. Only by comparison are we able to generalize, and to discover what is idiosyncratic in these manifestations. J. Nelson, Amer. Jour. Psychol., I. 374. Both sensory and non-sensory hallucinations … are idiosyncratic and unshared. E. Gurney, Mind, X. 162.

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  • Brain damage of that magnitude was idiosyncratic, we'd been told, resulting in behaviour individual to each victim. —  Hot Money
  • (Perhaps idiosyncratic, because Lord knew plenty of love got made on Luna, frequently in delightful ways impractical elsewhere.) —  The Stars Are Also Fire
  • Dom's fruity and idiosyncratic, slightly mocking voice was impossible to read. —  The Grand Wheel
  • Tina's voice was very powerful, and also very idiosyncratic -- easy to pick out. —  I Tina
  • Thoughts are just too idiosyncratic, too scattered. —  Analog Science Fiction and Fact
 

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