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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PECULIAR'ITY, n. Something peculiar to a person or thing; that which belongs to or is found in one person or thing and in no other; as a peculiarity of style or manner of thinking; peculiarity in dress.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: an odd or unusual characteristic [syn: peculiarity, distinctive feature, distinguishing characteristic]
2: a distinguishing trait [syn: peculiarity, specialness, specialty, speciality, distinctiveness]
3: something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting [syn: curio, curiosity, oddity, oddment, peculiarity, rarity]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural -ties) Date: 1646 1. the quality or state of being peculiar 2. a distinguishing characteristic 3. oddity, quirk

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. -ies) 1 a idiosyncrasy; unusualness; oddity. b an instance of this. 2 a characteristic or habit (meanness is his peculiarity). 3 the state of being peculiar.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Peculiarity Pe*cul`iar"i*ty, n.; pl. Peculiarities. 1. The quality or state of being peculiar; individuality; singularity. --Swift. 2. That which is peculiar; a special and distinctive characteristic or habit; particularity. The smallest peculiarity of temper on manner. --Macaulay. 3. Exclusive possession or right. [Obs.] --Bp. Hall.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(peculiarities) 1. A peculiarity that someone or something has is a strange or unusual characteristic or habit. Joe's other peculiarity was that he was constantly munching hard candy. N-COUNT: with supp, oft N of n 2. A peculiarity is a characteristic or quality which belongs or relates only to one person or thing. ...a strange peculiarity of the Soviet system. N-COUNT: with supp, oft N of n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Appropriateness, specialty, individuality, distinctiveness. 2. Individuality, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, characteristic, specialty, singularity, particularity.

Moby Thesaurus

aberration, abnormality, absurdity, affectation, affection, anomaly, anticness, aroma, attribute, automatism, bad habit, badge, banner, bizarreness, bizarrerie, brand, cachet, caprice, cast, character, characteristic, command of language, conceit, configuration, crackpotism, crank, crankiness, crankism, creature of habit, crotchet, crotchetiness, curiousness, custom, cut, deformity, deviancy, deviation, device, differentia, differential, differentness, distinctive feature, divergence, dottiness, earmark, eccentricity, erraticism, erraticness, exaggeration, expression of ideas, fantasticality, fashion, feature, feeling for words, figure, flavor, force of habit, form of speech, freakiness, freakishness, grace of expression, grandiloquence, grotesqueness, grotesquerie, gust, habit, habit pattern, habitude, hallmark, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, image, impress, impression, index, indicant, indicator, individualism, inflation, insignia, irregularity, keynote, kink, lineaments, literary style, maggot, malformation, manner, manner of speaking, mannerism, mark, marking, measure, minauderie, mode, mode of expression, mold, monstrosity, monstrousness, nature, nonconformity, note, oddity, odor, outlandishness, particularity, pattern, peculiar trait, personal style, picture, practice, praxis, property, quaintness, quality, queerness, quip, quirk, quirkiness, representation, representative, rhetoric, savor, seal, second nature, sense of language, shape, sigil, sign, signal, signature, singularity, smack, speciality, specialty, stamp, stereotype, stereotyped behavior, strain, strangeness, style, stylistic analysis, stylistics, sure sign, symptom, taint, tang, taste, telltale sign, teratism, the grand style, the plain style, the sublime, token, trademark, trait, trick, trick of behavior, twist, unconventionality, unnaturalness, usage, use, vein, way, weirdness, whim, whimsicality, whimsy, wont