Idiosyncratic vs Atopy - What's the difference?
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As an adjective idiosyncratic is peculiar to a specific individual; eccentric. As a noun atopy is (medicine) a hereditary disorder marked by the tendency to develop localized immediate hypersensitivity reactions to allergens such as pollen, food etc and is manifested by hay fever, asthma, or similar allergic conditions; generally considered to be caused by the interaction of environmental and genetic factors.
idiosyncratic English
Adjective
( en adjective)
Peculiar to a specific individual; eccentric.
* 1886 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde , ch. 9:
- 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.
* 1891 , (George MacDonald), The Flight of the Shadow , ch. 12:
- It was no merely idiosyncratic experience, for the youth had the same: it was love!
* 1982 , Michael Walsh, " Music: A Fresh Falstaff in Los Angeles ," Time , 26 April:
- British Director Ronald Eyre kept the action crisp; he was correctly content to execute the composer's wishes, rather than impose a fashionably idiosyncratic view of his own.
Related terms
* idiosyncrasy
* idiosyncratically
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atopy Noun
( atopies)
(medicine) A hereditary disorder marked by the tendency to develop localized immediate hypersensitivity reactions to allergens such as pollen, food etc and is manifested by hay fever, asthma, or similar allergic conditions; generally considered to be caused by the interaction of environmental and genetic factors.
* 1999 , (Matt Ridley), Genome , Harper Perennial 2004, p. 67:
- Whatever factor is invoked to explain the increase in asthma must also be capable of explaining other outbreaks of atopy .
A person suffering from atopic syndrome; a case of atopy.
Synonyms
* atopic allergy
Related terms
* atopic
See also
* allergy
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