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idiosyncrasy

/id-ee-uh-sing-kruh-see, -sin-/US // ˌɪd i əˈsɪŋ krə si, -ˈsɪn- //UK // (ˌɪdɪəʊˈsɪŋkrəsɪ) //

特异性,特异功能,特异功能症,特异性问题

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural id·i·o·syn·cra·sies.

    • : a characteristic, habit, mannerism, or the like, that is peculiar to an individual.
    • : the physical constitution peculiar to an individual.
    • : a peculiarity of the physical or the mental constitution, especially susceptibility toward drugs, food, etc.Compare allergy.

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Examples

  • They’ll have new idiosyncrasies that you’ll come to love just as much as the old ones.

  • Chicago is an idiosyncrasy or an exception to the rule, where the O is left intact and the -an is added afterward.

  • So at each stop, I’ll pick up some supplies and can take advantage of a bit of variety and the idiosyncrasies of local offerings, including foods that can’t be sent in the mail, like cheese.

  • Such idiosyncrasies, like the weird complexity and variability of smell, now turn out vital to understanding the brain—how it maneuvers an organism through a landscape of fast-changing molecular combinations.

  • While some of these idiosyncrasies can be explained by gravitational interactions in systems with multiple planets, there might be conditions where planets could form in bizarre orbits.

  • In hay fever certain patients present a peculiar idiosyncrasy, often inherited, almost always neuroarthritic.

  • What reveals perhaps more distinctly than anything else Chopin's idiosyncrasy is his friendship for Titus Woyciechowski.

  • He had a constitutional dislike for falsehoods, which was perhaps not so much a virtue as an idiosyncrasy.

  • They chatted volubly over this idiosyncrasy, and even laughed at it, but quite decorously so that our feelings might be spared.

  • This very singular idiosyncrasy he attributed to a fright when he was an infant in the arms of his nurse.