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Idiosyncratic

//ˌɪd.i.əʊ.sɪŋˈkɹæt.ɪk// adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Peculiar to a specific individual; eccentric.

    "At the time, I set it down to some idiosyncratic, personal distaste […] but I have since had reason to believe the cause to lie much deeper in the nature of man."

Adjective
  1. 1
    peculiar to the individual wordnet

Etymology

From idiosyncrasy + -ic. By surface analysis, idio- + syn- + -cratic.

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