idiosyncratic

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adj/ˌɪd.i.əʊ.sɪŋˈkɹæt.ɪk//-ˌsɪŋ-//ˌɪd.i.oʊ.sɪŋˈkɹæt.ɪk/

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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!

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