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I just kind of conjured them up out of my subconscious and put them in order of ascending peculiarity.
Edward Gorey

Meaning of "peculiarity" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PECULIARITY

peculiarity  [pɪˌkjuːlɪˈærɪtɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PECULIARITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Peculiarity is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PECULIARITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Idiosyncrasy

An idiosyncrasy is an unusual feature of a person. It also means odd habit. The term is often used to express eccentricity or peculiarity. A synonym may be "quirk".

Definition of peculiarity in the English dictionary

The first definition of peculiarity in the dictionary is a strange or unusual habit or characteristic. Other definition of peculiarity is a distinguishing trait, etc that is characteristic of a particular person; idiosyncrasy. Peculiarity is also the state or quality of being peculiar.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PECULIARITY


charity
ˈtʃærɪtɪ
clarity
ˈklærɪtɪ
colinearity
ˌkəʊlɪnɪˈærɪtɪ
collinearity
ˌkɒlɪnɪˈærɪtɪ
curvilinearity
ˌkɜːvɪˌlɪnɪˈærɪtɪ
disparity
dɪˈspærɪtɪ
familiarity
fəˌmɪlɪˈærɪtɪ
linearity
ˌlɪnɪˈærɪtɪ
multicollinearity
ˌmʌltɪkəʊˌlɪnɪˈærɪtɪ
nonlinearity
ˌnɒnˌlɪnɪˈærɪtɪ
overfamiliarity
ˌəʊvəfəˌmɪlɪˈærɪtɪ
parity
ˈpærɪtɪ
polarity
pəʊˈlærɪtɪ
popularity
ˌpɒpjʊˈlærɪtɪ
rectilinearity
ˌrɛktɪˌlɪnɪˈærɪtɪ
regularity
ˌrɛɡjʊˈlærɪtɪ
singularity
ˌsɪŋɡjʊˈlærɪtɪ
solidarity
ˌsɒlɪˈdærɪtɪ
subsidiarity
səbˌsɪdɪˈærɪtɪ
unfamiliarity
ˌʌnfəmɪlɪˈærɪtɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PECULIARITY

pectoral muscle
pectoralis major
pectoralis minor
pectorally
pectoriloquy
pectose
peculate
peculation
peculator
peculiar
peculiar people
peculiarise
peculiarities
peculiarize
peculiarly
peculium
pecuniarily
pecuniary
pecuniary advantage
pecunious

WORDS THAT END LIKE PECULIARITY

angularity
authority
capillarity
cellularity
circularity
complementarity
dissimilarity
granularity
insularity
interdisciplinarity
irregularity
modularity
molarity
muscularity
osmolarity
particularity
planarity
rarity
registered charity
similarity
vulgarity

Synonyms and antonyms of peculiarity in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PECULIARITY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «peculiarity» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of peculiarity

Translation of «peculiarity» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PECULIARITY

Find out the translation of peculiarity to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of peculiarity from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «peculiarity» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

怪癖
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

peculiaridad
570 millions of speakers

English

peculiarity
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ख़ासियत
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

خصوصية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

особенность
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

peculiaridade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বিশেষত্ব
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

particularité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Keanehan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Eigenart
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

奇妙さ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

특이함
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Peculiaritas
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

trạng thái riêng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

விசித்திரம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वैशिष्ठ्य
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

acayiplik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

peculiarità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Osobliwością
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

особливість
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

particularitate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ιδιαιτερότητα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vreemd
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

egenhet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

særegenhet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of peculiarity

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PECULIARITY»

The term «peculiarity» is regularly used and occupies the 68.073 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PECULIARITY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about peculiarity

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4 QUOTES WITH «PECULIARITY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word peculiarity.
1
Edward Gorey
I just kind of conjured them up out of my subconscious and put them in order of ascending peculiarity.
2
Osama bin Laden
The country of the Two Holy Places has in our religion a peculiarity of its own over the other Muslim countries. In our religion, it is not permissible for any non-Muslim to stay in our country. Therefore, even though American civilians are not targeted in our plan, they must leave.
3
Thomas Malthus
The main peculiarity which distinguishes man from other animals is the means of his support-the power which he possesses of very greatly increasing these means.
4
Johannes Stark
The most common and most important result of them is that the nature and size of the effect on corresponding series of different elements are largely an expression of the peculiarity of their atomic structure - or, at least, of the structure of the surface.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PECULIARITY»

Discover the use of peculiarity in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to peculiarity and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Ascending peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey : interviews
Presents a selection of twenty-one interviews conducted over the course of twenty-five years with the popular American writer and illustrator.
Edward Gorey, Karen Wilkin, 2001
2
The Peculiarity of Literature: An Allegorical Approach to ...
Argues that Poe's fiction remains outside the realm of critical analysis and that its nature resists interpretation.
Jeffrey DeShell, 1997
3
We, the People: Politics of National Peculiarity in ...
INTRODUCTION: TOWARDS. A. FRAMEWORK. FOR. STUDYING. THE. POLITICS. OF. NATIONAL. PECULIARITY. IN. THE. 19TH. CENTURY. DIANA MISHKOVA THE PROJECT This volume is the result of a 15-month research work which ...
Diana Mishkova, 2009
4
Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: 5th ...
Peculiarity Oriented Mining and Its Application for Knowledge Discovery in Amino -Acid Data Ning Zhong1, Muneaki Ohshima1, and Setsuo Ohsuga2 1 Dept. of Information Eng., Maebashi Institute of Technology 2 Dept. of Information and ...
David Cheung, Graham J. Williams, Qing Li, 2001
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Principles of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery: Third ...
In this section, We first define peculiarity rules as a neW type of association rules and then describe a Way of finding peculiarity rules. 2.1 Association Rules vs. Peculiarity Rules Association rules are an important class of regularity hidden in  ...
Jan Zytkow, Jan Rauch, 1999
6
Mining Complex Data: ECML/PKDD 2007 Third International ...
Unfortunately, such POM is not totally fit for ERP data analysis. The reason is that the useful aspect for ERP data analysis is not amplitude, but the latent time. In order to solve this problem, we extend POM to Peculiarity Vector Oriented Mining  ...
Zbigniew W. Ras, Shusaku Tsumoto, Djamel A. Zighed, 2008
7
The Critical Philosophy of Hermann Cohen
Thus Cohen denied religion independence in the system, that is, a specific " direction" of consciousness corresponding to it, preferring to write about peculiarity of religion as regards the system. This peculiarity consists of a " modification" (BR ...
Andrea Poma, 1997
8
Historiography of Imperial Russia: The Profession and ...
The Slavophiles were strong precisely because they built their whole theory around historical justification for the peculiarity of the Russian historical process. . . . They had a strong position, based on the peculiarity of its development, and from ...
Thomas Sanders, 1999
9
Between Being and Not-being: Non-existent Objects and the ...
Without doubt, existence is bound to a certain peculiarity of objects, insofar as objects that lack this peculiarity cannot exist at all; in my view, for this peculiarity we find the term “reality” is most suitable. These real objects, such as table, chair,  ...
Vera Albrecht, 2007
10
Kierkegaard-Arg Philosophers
Kierkegaard distinguishes, however, between two kinds of peculiarity, or ways of being 'oneself: one that is valuable and one that is not. The latter can be brought under the heading of 'pettiness' (Smaalighed). Pettiness is not worthy of love ...
Alastair Hannay, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PECULIARITY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term peculiarity is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Boris Johnson returns fire in water cannon war with Theresa May
... weapons were used by police in Northern Ireland, asking: 'Do the people of Northern Ireland have some physical peculiarity that means they ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
2
Youngstown Playhouse and family remember Bentley Lenhoff
... “The Glass Menagerie,” largely because of its symbolic use of a unicorn to embody feelings of peculiarity and abnormality often felt by artists. «Youngstown Vindicator, Jul 15»
3
Thriving Nashville Flea Market gives antiques new life
But when it comes to originality – and peculiarity, look no further than Shayne Parker's antique booth: Dead People's Things. Housed inside an ... «The Tennessean, Jul 15»
4
Hiding Black Behind the Ears: Dominicans, Blackness, and Haiti
Perhaps the most critical peculiarity Baldwin observed was the African American disconnect from a black nation, the loss of black hegemony, ... «Gawker, Jul 15»
5
Marc Allard: John Schiffner a Cape Cod institution
There is another peculiarity about this race: it's free for the runners, and that isn't something that is going to change any time soon either. «Norwich Bulletin, Jul 15»
6
Localising humanitarian actions
Body of knowledge is growing with every new disaster, yet peculiarity of each disaster always keep planners and practitioners preoccupied with ... «The News on Sunday, Jul 15»
7
Surprise! Your Medicare Premium Could Soar Next Year
... more than half in 2016, thanks to a peculiarity in the law that sets premium amounts each year. To help you figure out whether your premiums ... «Fox Business, Jul 15»
8
Osun Salary Crisis: State Insolvency And True Federalism – By …
For example, the state could deliberately invest in an industry because of the peculiarity of the people of a certain section of the state, region or ... «Osun Defender, Jul 15»
9
A Peek Inside The World's First Bulletproof Coffee Shop
Soaking in the furnishings of the coffeeshop's space, I couldn't help but notice their peculiarity. Lightboxes around the entrance doorway adjust ... «LAist, Jul 15»
10
What you can learn from Moe Norman, the best ball-striker golf has …
Despite winning more than 50 events in Canada, Norman's peculiarity hindered his abilities in America. At one showing at the Masters, Norman ... «GolfDigest.com, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Peculiarity [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/peculiarity>. Apr 2024 ».
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