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- Peculiarity - n. - The quality or state of being peculiar; individuality; singularity.
- Peculiarity - n. - That which is peculiar; a special and distinctive characteristic or habit; particularity.
- Peculiarity - n. - Exclusive possession or right.
- Isocephalism - n. - A peculiarity in the design of bas-relief by which the heads of human figures are kept at the same height from the ground, whether the personages are seated, standing, or mounted on horseback; -- called also isokephaleia.
- Idiosyncrasy - n. - A peculiarity of physical or mental constitution or temperament; a characteristic belonging to, and distinguishing, an individual; characteristic susceptibility; idiocrasy; eccentricity.
- Rabbinism - n. - A rabbinic expression or phraseology; a peculiarity of the language of the rabbins.
- Sex - n. - The distinguishing peculiarity of male or female in both animals and plants; the physical difference between male and female; the assemblage of properties or qualities by which male is distinguished from female.
- Chaldaism - n. - An idiom or peculiarity in the Chaldee dialect.
- Feature - n. - The cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture, a treaty, or an essay; any marked peculiarity or characteristic; as, one of the features of the landscape.
- Syrianism - n. - A Syrian idiom, or a peculiarity of the Syrian language; a Syriacism.
- Atavism - n. - The recurrence of any peculiarity or disease of an ancestor in a subsequent generation, after an intermission for a generation or two.
- Sport - n. - A plant or an animal, or part of a plant or animal, which has some peculiarity not usually seen in the species; an abnormal variety or growth. See Sporting plant, under Sporting.
- Phraseology - n. - Manner of expression; peculiarity of diction; style.
- Humorist - n. - One who has some peculiarity or eccentricity of character, which he indulges in odd or whimsical ways.
- Provinciality - n. - The quality or state of being provincial; peculiarity of language characteristic of a province.
- Bachelorism - n. - Bachelorhood; also, a manner or peculiarity belonging to bachelors.
- Manner - n. - The style of writing or thought of an author; characteristic peculiarity of an artist.