Irreverent vs Idiosyncratic - What's the difference?
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As adjectives the difference between irreverent and idiosyncratic is that irreverent is irreverent while idiosyncratic is peculiar to a specific individual; eccentric.
irreverent English
Adjective
( en adjective)
Lacking respect or seriousness.
Courageous, straightforward, having mass appeal, but likely to offend. Challenging the status quo, rocking the boat.
:An irreverent new work.
:An irreverent examination of reviewing.
Synonyms
* impertinent
* insolent
* flippant
* pert
* See also
See also
* sarcastic
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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.
Related terms
* idiosyncrasy
* idiosyncratically
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