idiosyncracy

idiosyncracy: idiosyncracy: [17] Greek idios meant ‘of a particular person, personal, private, own’. Among the words it has contributed to English are idiom [16] (etymologically ‘one’s own particular way of speaking’), idiot, and idiosyncracy. This was a compound formed in Greek with súgkrāsis, itself a compound noun made up of sún ‘together’ and krāsis ‘mixture’ (a relative of English crater). Súgkrāsis originally meant literally ‘mixture’, but it was later used metaphorically for ‘mixture of personal characteristics, temperament’, and so idiosúgkrāsis was ‘one’s own particular mix of traits’.
=> idiom, idiot

1. Corporate culture is an important factor that decides the idiosyncracy of corporations.: 企業(yè)文化正是決定企業(yè)特質(zhì)的重要因素.

2. Personality is the supreme realization of the innate idiosyncracy of a living being.: 人格是生物內(nèi)在特質(zhì)的最高實(shí)現(xiàn).