How do you pronounce idiosyncrasy?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˌɪdiəˈsɪŋkɹəsi/.

idiosyncrasy

/ˌɪdiəˈsɪŋkɹəsi/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 1.95 in modern English

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"This mode of death had been an idiosyncrasy with his family, for generations past; not often occurring, indeed, but, when it does occur, usually attacking individuals about the Judge’s time of life, and generally in the tension of some mental crisis, or, perhaps, in an access of wrath."
"Every village has its idiosyncrasy, its constitution, often its own code of morality."
"If he expresses himself such as he is, an idiosyncrasy affected but not annihilated by education, he may say that his books are his own."
"She's flying in from Stockholm on Thursday. She apparently has certain sexual idiosyncrasies."
"When we situate climax during intercourse as the bullseye, we gate off the idiosyncrasy and experimentation that are the wellspring of sexual pleasure."
"The trouble with this question is that it removes the focus from the substance of whatever event or debate is being discussed, redirecting it to the speaker’s or writer’s personal perceptions or expectations about it — away from facts and toward idiosyncrasy."

First attested in 1604, in modern sense since 1665, from Ancient Greek ἰδιοσυγκρασία (idiosunkrasía, “one’s own temperament”), from ἴδιος (ídios, “one’s own”) + σύν (sún, “together”) + κρᾶσις (krâsis, “temperament”). By surface analysis, idio- + syn- + -crasy.

idiosyncrasies (plural)

idiosyncratic idiosyncratically

eccentricity habit peculiarity speciality specialness specialty trait diathesis