Idiosyncrasy
A crotchet or peculiar one-sided view of a subject, a
monomania. Properly a peculiar effect produced by medicines or foods;
as when coffee acts as an aperient; the electrical current as an
emetic, as it does upon me. (Greek, idios sun krasis, something
peculiar to a person's temperament.)
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