Idiosyncratic vs Cummingsesque - What's the difference?
idiosyncratic | cummingsesque |
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, "
Reminiscent or characteristic of (1894–1962), American writer and painter noted for his syntactically idiosyncratic poetry.
English eponyms
As adjectives the difference between idiosyncratic and cummingsesque
is that idiosyncratic is peculiar to a specific individual; eccentric while Cummingsesque is reminiscent or characteristic of Edward Estlin Cummings (1894–1962), American writer and painter noted for his syntactically idiosyncratic poetry.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!
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.
