as in tricks
an odd or peculiar habit
his only idiosyncrasy is his inveterate wearing of sneakers, even with business suits
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Recent Examples of idiosyncrasies
His own composer as usual, Amenabar here tends to underline the film’s shortcomings, rather than elevate its idiosyncrasies with an original score that’s too conventional by half.
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Dennis Harvey, Variety, 31 Oct. 2025
Sprites is the very best idiosyncrasies of Britain that comedy and horror audiences around the world have loved so much since Monty Python.
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2025
The wonderfully ridiculous brainchild of co-stars/directors Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement, the mockumentary follows a group of vampires living in an apartment in New Zealand and struggling with the idiosyncrasies of modern times.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 18 Oct. 2025
Candidates familiar with Preller’s idiosyncrasies might have an early advantage.
—Dennis Lin, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2025
In the same way most developers today don’t pay much attention to the instruction sets and other hardware idiosyncrasies of the CPUs that their code runs on, which language a program is vibe coded in ultimately becomes a minor detail.
—Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 23 Sep. 2025
Writing through the perspective of young people offers an opportunity to look at the idiosyncrasies and hypocrisies of religious inheritance with a light touch.
—Anna Bruno
september 19, Literary Hub, 19 Sep. 2025
Conybeare, a classics scholar, intertwines learned exegesis with examples of Augustine’s human idiosyncrasies, offering illuminating analyses of the philosopher’s seminal texts and ideas—including his theory of original sin—and of the role that his heritage played in his self-conception.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
The Brutalist, for all its idiosyncrasies, was a fairly conventional Oscar player—a classically structured paean to a great man.
—Radhika Seth, Vogue, 1 Sep. 2025
Dennis Harvey, Variety, 31 Oct. 2025
Sprites is the very best idiosyncrasies of Britain that comedy and horror audiences around the world have loved so much since Monty Python.
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2025
The wonderfully ridiculous brainchild of co-stars/directors Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement, the mockumentary follows a group of vampires living in an apartment in New Zealand and struggling with the idiosyncrasies of modern times.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 18 Oct. 2025
Candidates familiar with Preller’s idiosyncrasies might have an early advantage.
—Dennis Lin, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2025
In the same way most developers today don’t pay much attention to the instruction sets and other hardware idiosyncrasies of the CPUs that their code runs on, which language a program is vibe coded in ultimately becomes a minor detail.
—Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 23 Sep. 2025
Writing through the perspective of young people offers an opportunity to look at the idiosyncrasies and hypocrisies of religious inheritance with a light touch.
—Anna Bruno
september 19, Literary Hub, 19 Sep. 2025
Conybeare, a classics scholar, intertwines learned exegesis with examples of Augustine’s human idiosyncrasies, offering illuminating analyses of the philosopher’s seminal texts and ideas—including his theory of original sin—and of the role that his heritage played in his self-conception.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
The Brutalist, for all its idiosyncrasies, was a fairly conventional Oscar player—a classically structured paean to a great man.
—Radhika Seth, Vogue, 1 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for idiosyncrasies
Noun
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The decor is relatively spare, allowing the natural materials to shine and emphasizing clever design tricks like the dining-table bench built into the back of the kitchen island.—
Tori Latham,
Robb Report,
31 Oct. 2025
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Subscribe today As Halloween looms, Wall Street is balancing tricks and treats.—
Lim Hui Jie,
CNBC,
31 Oct. 2025
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Other Inside Trader Joe’s podcast episodes have discussed many of the quirks of the beloved grocery store, like what the bells next to cash registered are for and whether employees are encouraged to flirt with customers.—
Sabrina Weiss,
PEOPLE,
31 Oct. 2025
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The Historic Delaware Hotel With its antique furnishings, wooden floors, and charming quirks, the colorful Historic Delaware Hotel is brimming with old-world character that feels evocative of Leadville’s silver boom days.—
Karthika Gupta,
Travel + Leisure,
27 Oct. 2025
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Ancelotti and Zidane certainly had their own tactical ideas, but were also pragmatic and based game plans primarily on the characteristics (strengths and weaknesses) of the squad made available to them.—
Dermot Corrigan,
New York Times,
31 Oct. 2025
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For the chattering women, by contrast, the tool of power is writing; and for people who were almost certainly illiterate, the writing takes on almost magical characteristics.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
31 Oct. 2025
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There are other traits that their trips to the White House have in common.—
Susan Page,
USA Today,
3 Nov. 2025
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Based on ideas of recruit quality and the traits the military sees as best suited to success in the ranks, the military has mostly desired to recruit straight and white young men.—
Jeremiah Favara,
The Conversation,
3 Nov. 2025
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The series begins with Guy Anatole (Nicholas Denton, whose mannerisms and line deliveries are distractingly reminiscent of Eddie Redmayne) about to graduate law school.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
25 Oct. 2025
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Both on and off the court, the freshman phenom has the mannerisms of a professional.—
Shreyas Laddha,
Kansas City Star,
23 Oct. 2025
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Additionally, unlike the innermost 21 moons and moonlets of Saturn, the next three, Titan, Hyperion, and Iapetus, all have larger eccentricities to their orbits, and no one is certain as to why.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
9 Oct. 2025
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Even the film’s eccentricities that do feel out of a Pynchon novel — notably Lockjaw’s desire to join a secret society of white supremacists called the Christmas Adventurers Club — read as plausible in the current political climate.—
Andrew McGowan,
Variety,
26 Sep. 2025
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And as the play proceeds, those characters commit, ever more intensely, to their peculiarities.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
3 Nov. 2025
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Its complexities and peculiarities are only dimly recalled, if at all, by many readers.—
John Swansburg,
The Atlantic,
10 Oct. 2025
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Its shares are falling more than 10% Wednesday night after the burrito chain — and Niccol’s former employer — lowered guidance and offered cautious commentary around younger consumer eating habits.—
Kevin Stankiewicz,
CNBC,
30 Oct. 2025
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Although chocolate can sometimes be associated with unhealthy habits, like eating too much sugar, dark chocolate has many redeeming qualities.—
Christina Manian,
Health,
30 Oct. 2025
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“Idiosyncrasies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/idiosyncrasies. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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