adj. idiosyncratique, particulier; caractéristique

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idiosyncratic [NdNBLsNE'krWtNk] adj
(a)particulier, caractéristique;
(b)Med idiosyncrasique.

1581, in D.D.L.; grec idiosugkrasia «tempérament particulier», de idios «propre», et sugkrasis «mélange».
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Greek idiosynkrasi comprising idios "own, personal" + synkrasis "admixture" from syn "together, with" + krasis "mixture, temperament." Attic Greek "idiotes" meant "private, ordinary person" as opposed to a public figure. However, since this implied that an idiotes was unaware of the koina "affairs of the city," he was, by implication, also ignorant, hence the English meaning of "idiot." The meaning of "private" remains in Modern Greek where idiotikopoiesis does not mean "idiotic poetry," but "privatization," since "poiesis," the origin of our word "poetry," still means "making, creating."

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Le rapport qui constitue la particularité de chaque être, de chaque état physiologique ou pathologique est « la clef de l'idiosyncrasie, sur laquelle repose toute la médecine ».

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Tel est le mode par lequel l'esprit de la vie rudimentaire communique avec le monde extérieur, et ce monde extérieur est, dans la vie rudimentaire, limité par l'idiosyncrasie des organes (...)

(BAUDELAIRE, Trad. E. POE, Histoires extraordinaires, «Révélation magnétique».)