Idiosyncrasy vs Craze - What's the difference?
idiosyncrasy | craze | Related terms |
A behavior or way of thinking that is characteristic of a person.
A language or behaviour that is particular to an individual or group.
(medicine) A peculiar individual reaction to a generally innocuous substance or factor.
A peculiarity that serves to distinguish or identify.
Craziness; insanity.
A strong habitual desire or fancy; a crotchet.
A temporary passion or infatuation, as for same new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; as, the bric-a-brac craze; the aesthetic craze.
To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit.
* Milton
To derange the intellect of; to render insane.
* Tillotson
* Shakespeare
To be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed; to rave; to become insane.
* Keats
(transitive, intransitive, archaic) To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See crase.
* Milton
(intransitive) To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery.
Idiosyncrasy is a related term of craze.
As nouns the difference between idiosyncrasy and craze
is that idiosyncrasy is a behavior or way of thinking that is characteristic of a person while craze is craziness; insanity.As a verb craze is
to weaken; to impair; to render decrepit.idiosyncrasy
English
(wikipedia idiosyncrasy)Noun
(idiosyncrasies)- He mastered the idiosyncrasies of English spelling.
Synonyms
* eccentricity * foible * habit * mannerism * oddity * quirk * vagaryDerived terms
(derived terms) * idiosyncratic * idiosyncraticallySee also
* eccentricity * habit * peculiarity * speciality * specialness * specialty * traitReferences
* *craze
English
Alternative forms
* (l), (l), (l) (dialectal)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(craz)- Till length of years, / And sedentary numbness, craze my limbs.
- any man that is crazed and out of his wits
- Grief hath crazed my wits.
- She would weep and he would craze .
- God, looking forth, will trouble all his host, / And craze their chariot wheels.