Colloquialism vs Idiosyncratic - What's the difference?
colloquialism | idiosyncratic |
A colloquial word or phrase; a common spoken expression, often regional.
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 a noun colloquialism
is a colloquial word or phrase; a common spoken expression, often regional.As an adjective idiosyncratic is
peculiar to a specific individual; eccentric.colloquialism
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Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia colloquialism)See also
* argot * cant * jargon * slangidiosyncratic
English
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.