What's the difference between idiosyncratic and individualistic?

Idiosyncratic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Idiosyncratical

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, reliable discrimination between immunological and idiosyncratic pharmacological mechanism is difficult to obtain.
  • (2) What the film does, though, is use these incidents to build an idiosyncratic but insightful picture of Lawrence, played indelibly by Peter O'Toole in his debut role: a complicated, egomaniacal and physically masochistic man, at once god-like and all too flawed, with a tenuous grip both on reality and on sanity.
  • (3) There are two distinct types of toxicity with differing pathogenic mechanisms--a dose-related reversible marrow aplasia and a dose-independent idiosyncratic aplasia with a high mortality.
  • (4) The author suggests that if the concept is to be retained, psychiatrists utilize where possible the term "alcohol idiosyncratic reaction" in accord with Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) III guidelines, particularly in view of the medicolegal implications discussed in Part II, which follows as a separate paper.
  • (5) The seemingly idiosyncratic genesis of fatty tissue is discussed with reference to one of the patients in this series.
  • (6) His idiosyncratic taxonomy – Glasman has called David Cameron a socialist in charge of a liberal-led government – means he can confuse as often as he clarifies.
  • (7) In general, the rest of the sector have found Kids Company to be pretty idiosyncratic,” they said.
  • (8) Neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS) is an adverse reaction of an idiosyncratic nature to drugs having antidopaminergic activity.
  • (9) Monotherapy can improve seizure control as well as reduce the risk of serious idiosyncratic reactions, dose-related side effects, and complex drug interactions.
  • (10) Persistent ataxia may represent a previously unrecognized idiosyncratic reaction to griseofulvin in cats.
  • (11) NMS is a rare and idiosyncratic reaction that occurs with the use of dopamine antagonists or the withdrawal of dopamine agonists from patients with IP.
  • (12) Thus, if immune mechanisms are involved in the pathogenesis of halothane hepatitis, other factors, probably related to idiosyncratic host immune responses, must be implicated.
  • (13) Because halothane causes an idiosyncratic, and sometimes fatal, hepatitis that is associated with an immune response against several trifluoroacetylated liver proteins, the present findings raise the possibility that humans exposed to HCFC-123 or structurally related HCFCs may be at risk of developing an immunologically mediated hepatitis.
  • (14) Beyond that, MSNBC devotes three hours each morning to a show hosted by a former rightwing GOP congressman and his cavalcade of vapid "centrist" establishment journalists such as Mark Halperin (then again, Fox features the idiosyncratic and unpredictable Shepard Smith each night).
  • (15) Ketoconazole is indicated in emergency situations, but chronic use is prevented by serious idiosyncratic toxicity and by long term complications.
  • (16) Many of the formulation-related changes in theophylline concentrations appeared to be idiosyncratic and could not be predicted by the overall bioavailability differences between the drugs.
  • (17) The most important toxic effect of chloramphenicol is bone marrow suppression, which can be dose related or idiosyncratic.
  • (18) The low power of the regression model in explaining variation in the decision to take bitewings indicates an idiosyncratic use of bitewing radiographs for caries diagnosis.
  • (19) Open daily noon-1am The Hudson Bar Facebook Twitter Pinterest Idiosyncratically decked out in antique bric-a-brac, this busy, multistorey cafe-bar and music venue has one of Belfast’s most comprehensive craft beer ranges.
  • (20) In these patterns can be identified: (a) conspicuous behaviors, idiosyncratic for the individual, which often yield to psychoanalytic inquiry to reveal their dynamic-historical antecedents; and (b) inconspicuous background kinesics, habitual to the individual, which ordinarily are opaque to analytic exploration, yet hold rich meaning.

Individualistic


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the individual or individualism.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To organise society as an individualistic war of one against another was barbaric, while the other models, slavishly following the rules of one religion or one supreme leader, denied freedom.
  • (2) Individualist as well as contextualist approaches are presented.
  • (3) This tendency to blame the victim appears to transcend fundamental philosophic differences which have traditionally distinguished some collectivist and individualist societies.
  • (4) In this paper I examine longstanding individualistic assumptions and the contradictory and sometimes similar findings of research in this field despite the differing and ever increasing sophistication of measurement techniques and study design.
  • (5) The industrial working class is small, even in succesful manufacturing countries like Germany; the salariat is large; the phenomenon of the young, networked, individualist only adds to social democracy’s existential problem, which is: whose values do we represent?
  • (6) Formerly Belgium's Catholic hospitals prospered within a system based on collectivized financing and individualistic service delivery patterns.
  • (7) But though he has been associated in the public mind with Republican viewpoints, he's something of an individualist.
  • (8) Understanding companion animal behavior and treating behavior problems requires an appreciation of both the species-typical and individualistic nature of the behavior of dogs and cats, as well as people.
  • (9) The author therefore hopes that our universities will, in the future, provide opportunities for young research workers as well as for somewhat older individualists.
  • (10) A flat and compulsory licence fee could hardly be more out of kilter with the culture of a free-for-all and individualistic web.
  • (11) Spontaneously driven phrenic cells possessed individualistic depolarization and spiking patterns that were a function of the conduction velocity in the different motor axons.
  • (12) Various of the planned central buildings were realised on both sides: the clustered, sculptural forms of the Cyril and Methodius University and the extraordinary Opera and Ballet Theatre , both designed by Slovenian architects, and from Macedonian designers, the Telecommunications Centre – a strange, individualistic example of organic brutalism – and the Trade Centre: a long, low shopping centre of overlapping terraces stepping subtly down to the river, its combination of enclosure and openness inspired by the structure of the bazaar.
  • (13) Their inconsistency and fluidity may stem from individualistic egalitarianism within Semai society and powerlessness in the face of nonSemai attack.
  • (14) Yet his case shows that traditional ideals are under growing pressure in a fast-changing, increasingly individualistic society.
  • (15) To reverse that trend, Americans would have to translate their individualistic spirit into an explicit ideological program: one that upheld individualism and laissez-faire capitalism as moral and political ideals.
  • (16) An overview is presented of the arguments economists have used to justify a system of collective health care from a broadly individualistic position.
  • (17) The 1988 survey asked 1,230 buyers why they had bought, and received hard-headed, individualistic, essentially Thatcherite responses: “good financial investment ... the ‘bargain’ which discounts on sales provided ... the sense of security ... of pride ... the freedom to repair or improve ... the desire to have something to leave the family ... to move up the housing ladder ... to increase mobility”.
  • (18) Men placed higher priority on individualistic approaches to adjustment, such as suppression of feelings.
  • (19) This individualistic worldview also extends to gun control, an issue at the heart of these now quasi-routine tragedies.
  • (20) The document retreats from the more challenging individualist aspects of the New Labour agenda, developed late under Tony Blair – challenging and fragmenting public services, rather than promoting uniform inadequacy.