Idiosyncratic vs Epitome - What's the difference?
idiosyncratic | epitome |
As an adjective idiosyncratic is peculiar to a specific individual; eccentric. As a noun epitome is ( label) ( embodiment or encapsulation of).
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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epitome English
Noun
( wikipedia epitome)
( en-noun)
(of a class of items) The embodiment or encapsulation of.
(of a class of items) A representative example.
(of a class of items) The height; the best.
(of a written document) A brief summary.
Usage notes
The sense ‘the height, the best’ is considered incorrect by some; instead, `pinnacle' may be preferred.
Synonyms
* (an embodiment of) in a nutshell (modern idiom), synopsis
* (the best) greatest
* (a summary) abstract, synopsis
Antonyms
* antithesis
Derived terms
* epitomize
* epitomic
* epitomical
Related terms
* epitomator
* epitomist
* epitomizer
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