Idiosyncratic vs Capricious - What's the difference?
idiosyncratic | capricious | Related terms |
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, "
Impulsive and unpredictable; determined by chance, impulse, or whim
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Idiosyncratic is a related term of capricious.
As adjectives the difference between idiosyncratic and capricious
is that idiosyncratic is peculiar to a specific individual; eccentric while capricious is impulsive and unpredictable; determined by chance, impulse, or whim.idiosyncratic
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!
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- 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.
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*capricious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I almost died in a capricious winter storm.
- Stringent rulers are unlikely to act capriciously .
- The Mayor claimed that the action was reasonable, but in reality the action was arbitrary and capricious in nature.