Entry Word: idiosyncrasy

Function: noun

Meaning: an odd or peculiar habit <his only idiosyncrasy was collecting pencil erasers and making little dolls out of them>

Synonyms crotchet, eccentricity, mannerism, oddity, peculiarity, quirk, singularity, trick

Related Words affectation, airs; attribute, characteristic, mark, property, trait; custom, habit, pattern, practice (also practise), way, wont; addiction; abnormality, perversion; disposition, genius, leaning, partiality; bent, inclination, penchant, predilection, predisposition, proclivity, propensity, tendency, turn; attitude, character, humor, identity, individuality, nature, personality, temperament

Near Antonyms conformity, sameness