different between idiosyncrasy vs stunt

English

Etymology

First attested in 1604, in modern sense since 1665, from Ancient Greek ????????????? (idiosunkrasía, “one’s own temperament”), from ????? (ídios, “one’s own”) + ??? (sún, “together”) + ?????? (krâsis, “temperament”). Analyzable as idio- +? syn- +? -crasy.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??d??(?)?s??k??si/
• IPA^(key): /??d.i.???s??.k??.si/
• IPA^(key): /??di.??s??k??si/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??dio??s??k??si/
• Hyphenation: idio?syn?crasy

Noun

idiosyncrasy (plural idiosyncrasies)

1. A behavior or way of thinking that is characteristic of a person.
2. A language or behaviour that is particular to an individual or group.
3. (medicine) A peculiar individual reaction to a generally innocuous substance or factor.
4. A peculiarity that serves to distinguish or identify.

Synonyms

• eccentricity
• foible
• habit
• mannerism
• oddity
• quirk
• vagary

Derived terms

• idiosyncratic
• idiosyncratically

Translations

See also

References

• idiosyncrasy in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• idiosyncrasy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st?nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt

Etymology 1

Unknown. Compare Middle Low German stunt (“a shoulder grip with which you throw someone on their back”), Middle English stunt (“foolish; stupid”).

Noun

stunt (plural stunts)

1. A daring or dangerous feat, often involving the display of gymnastic skills.
2. (archaic) skill
   • 1912, Stratemeyer Syndicate, Baseball Joe on the School Nine Chapter 1

     "See if you can hit the barrel, Joe," urged George Bland. "A lot of us have missed it, including Peaches, who seems to think his particular stunt is high throwing."

3. (American football) A special means of rushing the quarterback done to confuse the opposing team's offensive line.

Hyponyms

• publicity stunt

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Danish: stunt
• ? German: Stunt
• ? Norwegian Bokmål: stunt
• ? Norwegian Nynorsk: stunt

Translations

Verb

stunt (third-person singular simple present stunts, present participle stunting, simple past and past participle stunted)

1. (intransitive, cheerleading) To perform a stunt.
2. (intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To show off; to posture.
   • 2015, Seth Turner Jr., Brother: The Self-made Story of a St. Louis Entrepreneur:

     I was that interested because I wanted the Z28, but I wasn't going another day with Sterling stunting on me with the Contour.

Translations

Etymology 2

From dialectal stunt (“stubborn, dwarfed”), from Middle English stont, stunt (“short, brief”), from Old English stunt (“stupid, foolish, simple”), from Proto-Germanic *stuntaz (“short, compact, stupid, dull”). Cognate with Middle High German stunz (“short”), Old Norse stuttr (“short in stature, dwarfed”). Related to Old English styntan (“to make dull, stupefy, become dull, repress”). More at stint.

Verb

stunt (third-person singular simple present stunts, present participle stunting, simple past and past participle stunted)

1. (transitive) To check or hinder the growth or development of.

Translations

Noun

stunt (plural stunts)

1. A check in growth.
2. That which has been checked in growth; a stunted animal or thing.
3. A two-year-old whale, which, having been weaned, is lean and yields little blubber.

Anagrams

• Nutts

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

stunt m (plural stunts, diminutive stuntje n)

1. stunt

Verb

stunt

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of stunten
2. imperative of stunten

Middle English

Noun

stunt

1. Alternative form of stound: various spans of time.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English stunt.

Noun

stunt n (definite singular stuntet, indefinite plural stunt, definite plural stunta or stuntene)

1. a stunt

Derived terms

• stuntmann

References

• “stunt” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English stunt.

Noun

stunt n (definite singular stuntet, indefinite plural stunt, definite plural stunta)

1. a stunt

Derived terms

• stuntmann

References

• “stunt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *stuntaz (“short, stunted; stupid”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stunt/

Adjective

stunt

1. stupid, foolish
2. (substantive) idiot, fool

Declension

Synonyms

• dwæs

Descendants

• Middle English: stunt, stont
  • English: stunt