Synonyms of the word foible


FOIBLEDISTINCTIVENESS - IDIOSYNCRASY - MANNERISM - PART - PECULIARITY - PORTION - SPECIALITY - SPECIALNESS - SPECIALTY

foible

  • adj. (obsolete) Weak; feeble.
  • n. A quirk, idiosyncrasy, or mannerism; unusual habit or way (usage is typically plural), that is slightly…
  • n. A weakness or failing of character.
  • n. (fencing) Part of a sword between the middle and the point, weaker than the forte.

distinctiveness

  • n. The quality of being distinctive, individual or discrete.
  • n. Something which distinguishes something from anything else.

idiosyncrasy

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

mannerism

  • n. A group of verbal or other unconscious habitual behaviors peculiar to an individual.
  • n. Exaggerated or effected style in art, speech, or other behavior.
  • n. (art, literature) In literature, an ostentatious and unnatural style of the second half of the sixteenth…
  • n. (art, literature) In fine art, a style that is inspired by previous models, aiming to reproduce subjects…

part

  • n. A portion; a component.
  • n. Duty; responsibility.
  • n. (US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
  • n. (Judaism) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds.
  • n. A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective…
  • v. (intransitive) To leave.
  • v. To cut hair with a parting; shed.
  • v. (transitive) To divide in two.
  • v. (intransitive) To be divided in two or separated; shed.
  • v. (transitive, now rare) To divide up; to share.
  • v. (obsolete) To have a part or share; to partake.
  • v. To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
  • v. (obsolete) To hold apart; to stand or intervene between.
  • v. To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.
  • v. To leave; to quit.
  • v. (transitive, Internet) To leave (an IRC channel).
  • adj. Fractional; partial.
  • adv. Partly; partially; fractionally.

peculiarity

  • n. The quality or state of being peculiar; individuality; singularity.
  • n. That which is peculiar; a special and distinctive characteristic or habit; particularity.
  • n. Exclusive possession or right.

portion

  • n. An allocated amount.
  • n. That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.
  • n. One's fate; lot.
  • n. The part of an estate given or falling to a child or heir; an inheritance.
  • n. A wife's fortune; a dowry.
  • v. (transitive) To divide into amounts, as for allocation to specific purposes.
  • v. (transitive) To endow with a portion or inheritance.

speciality

  • n. British spelling standard spelling of specialty.

specialness

  • n. The state or quality of being special.

specialty

  • n. That in which one specializes; a chosen expertise or talent.
  • n. (obsolete) particularity.
  • n. A particular or peculiar case.
  • n. An attribute or quality peculiar to a species.
  • n. (law) A contract or obligation under seal; a contract by deed; a writing, under seal, given as security…

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