Berserk vs Idiosyncratic - What's the difference?
berserk | idiosyncratic |
Injuriously, maniacally, or furiously violent or out of control.
* After he watched his sister stabbed to death, he went berserk and attacked the killer like a beast or a wild animal.
Peculiar to a specific individual; eccentric.
* 1886 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde , ch. 9:
* 1891 , (George MacDonald), The Flight of the Shadow , ch. 12:
* 1982 , Michael Walsh, "
As adjectives the difference between berserk and idiosyncratic
is that berserk is injuriously, maniacally, or furiously violent or out of control while idiosyncratic is peculiar to a specific individual; eccentric.As a noun berserk
is a crazed Norse warrior who fought in a frenzy.berserk
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Alternative forms
* beserk * berzerk * beresque – humorous misspelling now accepted (Australian )Adjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
* berserkerSee also
*idiosyncratic
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Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.
- It was no merely idiosyncratic experience, for the youth had the same: it was love!
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.