peculiarity
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6.1
- noun
- /pɪˌkjuːliˈærɪti/
:
peculiaridad
- Her love for collecting vintage stamps is a charming peculiarity that sets her apart from her friends.
- cultural peculiarity
- own peculiarity
- specific peculiarity
There's an interesting peculiarity here for bosons.
- There's an interesting peculiarity here for bosons.
- It's that mismatch which is governing all of the peculiarities of motion near a black hole.
- Irish Christianity had certain peculiarities, some of them related to its lack of a Roman past.
- This sense of obligation that is a peculiarity, it seems, of our species, as far as we know.
- Do you think it's possible that's kind of an emergent phenomena, those peculiarities of our value system, How much of it is innate?
- Jamaica has this peculiarity of having forced the British not to recognize this defence.
- And he first brings this up in the preamble on the peculiarities of all metaphysical cognition in the Prolegomena.
- That was the first peculiarity in depression, that there could be this paradox of, yes, long sleep, but also not enough sleep to short sleep.
Examples
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One peculiarity of this old building is its uniquely shaped windows that attract many tourists.
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The peculiarity of his accent made it difficult for others to guess where he was from.
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I was caught off guard by the peculiarity of the situation.
Fiction book (2000) -
There is one marked peculiarity about this paper.
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This sense of obligation that is a peculiarity, it seems, of our species, as far as we know.
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That's the little peculiarity that you get by doing this exercise.
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Now, there's another peculiarity about the brain.
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Inform the police of the suspect's peculiarities.
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That's one of the peculiarities of Greek drama.
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We have discussed the peculiarities and merits of popular theatre as an educational tool.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
618
1.8
A trait that makes someone or something special
165
7.1
Something that is not normal or expected
159
3.4
A feature that makes something different from others
40
6.0
An unusual habit or trait that makes a person different
35
4.6
Being very strange or unusual in a way that attracts attention
25
4.1
Being the only one of its kind
15
7.8
Unusual behavior or habits that are different from what most people do
15
5.3
A strange person or object that people notice
12
8.3
An unusual personal habit or way of behaving that makes someone different
12
5.5
The feeling that something is unusual or hard to explain
11
5.2
Something that is not normal and can be seen in the body or test results
4
6.0
A quality that makes someone or something stand out from others
4
7.7
Being very different from other people or things
3
5.6
An unusual but pleasant way of behaving
3
4.0
A feature that makes someone or something different from others
2
4.1
A clear quality that makes a person or thing different
1
5.8
A state of being unusual or strange in a way that is hard to explain
1
6.9
A state of being very strange or unusual that surprises people
1
3.7
A quality that makes a person or thing stand out
1
5.6
Being clearly different from others
1
6.9
How different or rare something is compared with what people expect
1
8.4
Being very unusual in appearance, ideas, or behavior
Antonyms
How Unusual
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word peculiarity comes from peculiar, which originally meant something that 'belongs' to a person's own property and comes from pecu meaning 'cattle' or 'wealth'. So a peculiarity is a feature that 'belongs' to someone — a special or unusual quality that makes them different.