Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The quality or state of being peculiar.
- noun A notable or distinctive feature or characteristic.
- noun An eccentricity; an idiosyncrasy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Private ownership; proprietorship; prerogative.
- noun That which is peculiar to or characteristic of a person or thing; a special characteristic or belonging.
- noun The quality of being peculiar; individuality.
- noun Synonyms Characteristic, idiosyncrasy, singularity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being peculiar; individuality; singularity.
- noun That which is peculiar; a special and distinctive characteristic or habit; particularity.
- noun obsolete Exclusive possession or right.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The quality or state of being
peculiar ; individuality; singularity. - noun That which is peculiar; a special and distinctive characteristic or habit; particularity.
- noun Exclusive possession or right.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an odd or unusual characteristic
- noun something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting
- noun a distinguishing trait
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Examples
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Temperate men are not governed in their religious researches by the pride of peculiarity nor the influence of party views, and a faithful trial ought to have been made in order to convince of error before the charge of _pride of peculiarity_, or the influence of party views, could with propriety have been made.
A Series of Letters in Defence of Divine Revelation Hosea Ballou 1811
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In that romantic history, the retreat of the Ten Thousand Greeks, this peculiarity is alluded to.
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This peculiarity is not limited to the Philomycidae and Toxicodendron radicans.
What do philomycid slugs and poison ivy have in common? AYDIN 2009
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That peculiarity is their own; it is their mode of expression.
CHAPTER 12 2010
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This peculiarity is not limited to the Philomycidae and Toxicodendron radicans.
Archive 2009-08-01 AYDIN 2009
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Its peculiarity is the likeness to a seaport the Desert which rolls up almost to its doors being the sea and its ships being the camels.
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The peculiarity is also called water and grain, which gives rise to a host of double-entendres, puns, paronomasias and conceits more or less frigid.
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And today, in Provincetown, three hours away by car from Boston, these dollhouses, these inexpensive art galleries, these fishing shacks with painted clapboard façades gnawed by salt and snow — this typically middle-class seaside resort whose other peculiarity is to have become, over time, a gay town.
In the Footsteps of Tocqueville (Part V) Bernard-Henri L 2005
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And today, in Provincetown, three hours away by car from Boston, these dollhouses, these inexpensive art galleries, these fishing shacks with painted clapboard façades gnawed by salt and snow — this typically middle-class seaside resort whose other peculiarity is to have become, over time, a gay town.
In the Footsteps of Tocqueville (Part V) Bernard-Henri L 2005
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A fundamental peculiarity is that the image elements do not influence each other while the image is being reconstructed.
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