Idiosyncratic vs Nutty - What's the difference?

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Idiosyncratic is a related term of nutty.

As adjectives the difference between idiosyncratic and nutty

is that idiosyncratic is peculiar to a specific individual; eccentric while nutty is containing nuts.

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.

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nutty

English

Adjective

(er)

Containing nuts

Reminiscent of nuts

* 1997 , Mary Jo Plutt, Prevention's Stop Dieting and Lose Weight Cookbook , Rodale, ISBN 0875964699, p. 210:

Brown rice has had only its outer hull removed, leaving it with a beige color and a a pleasantly nutty flavor.

Barmy, crazy, mad.

Usage notes

In sense “insane”, similar to nuts, but more limited and somewhat milder: nutty means “eccentric, insane”, while “nuts” can mean either “insane” or “enthused, agitated” (“the crowd went nuts”), for which “nutty” is not used: *“the crowd went nutty”.

Synonyms

* nuts, squirrelly * See also