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Idiosyncratic vs Idiocentric - What's the difference?

idiosyncratic | idiocentric |

As adjectives the difference between idiosyncratic and idiocentric

is that idiosyncratic is peculiar to a specific individual; eccentric while idiocentric is characterized by or denoting interest centered upon oneself or one's own ways, rather than upon others or the ways of others; self-centered.

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.

    idiocentric

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • characterized by or denoting interest centered upon oneself or one's own ways, rather than upon others or the ways of others; self-centered
  • deviating from the norm; eccentric
  • Synonyms

    *(centered upon oneself ): egocentric, individualistic

    Antonyms

    *(centered upon oneself ): sociocentric, collectivistic, allocentric