English noun: peculiarity |
1. | peculiarity (cognition) an odd or unusual characteristic |
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| Synonyms | distinctive feature, distinguishing characteristic |
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| Broader (hypernym) | characteristic, feature |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | calling card |
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2. | peculiarity (attribute) a distinguishing trait |
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| Synonyms | distinctiveness, speciality, specialness, specialty |
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| Broader (hypernym) | individualism, individuality, individuation |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | foible, idiosyncrasy, mannerism |
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3. | peculiarity (artifact) something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting |
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| Synonyms | curio, curiosity, oddity, oddment, rarity |
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| Broader (hypernym) | object, physical object |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | bric-a-brac, collectable, collectible, collector's item, knickknack, knickknackery, nicknack, piece de resistance, showpiece, whatnot |
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