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The specific weirdness that makes you you, not a typo in the species.
means A distinctive trait or habit that marks someone or something as unusual, particular to them alone.
from From Latin 'peculiaris' meaning 'of one's own property,' rooted in 'peculium,' the small stock or savings a slave or son could technically call their own even while legally belonging to another — itself tied to 'pecu,' meaning cattle, since livestock was early wealth. So a peculiarity was first about private ownership — what's exclusively yours — before it drifted, by the 1600s, toward meaning a trait that's exclusively yours: your own strange little inheritance.
- etymology
- from Latin peculium, your own private property
- darwin loved it
- he studied odd traits to understand natural selection
- not a flaw
- often the exact detail people fall for
- plural danger
- too many at once reads as a personality disorder