Idiosyncratic vs Individualistic - What's the difference?
idiosyncratic | individualistic |
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, "
More interested in individual people than in society as a whole
Interested in oneself rather than others; egocentric
Having idiosyncratic behaviour or ideas
As adjectives the difference between idiosyncratic and individualistic
is that idiosyncratic is peculiar to a specific individual; eccentric while individualistic is more interested in individual people than in society as a whole.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.