Idiosyncrasy GRE Vocabulary Flashcard

Idiosyncrasy GRE Vocabulary Flashcard /ˌɪd.i.əˈsɪŋ.krə.si/ (noun) Definition a weird style or way of thinking, behaving or responding to a situation owned by a person, habit, thinking mode, eccentricity, oddity, unorthodoxy, peculiarity, feature, whim, mannerism, foible, quirk, characteristic, caprice, humor Example When your doctor prescribes a medication, neither you nor the doctor expect it to be a life-threatening drug, but sometimes it is just that. In pharmacology, idiosyncrasy refers to an idiosyncratic reaction, which is an adverse effect to an agent, such as a drug, which doesn't occur in most patients who've used the same agent. That shouldn't be too surprising. ...