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quirk

noun

1 he likes working with people he knows because they know his quirks:

idiosyncrasy, peculiarity, oddity, eccentricity, foible, whim, whimsy, notion, conceit, vagary, caprice, fancy, kink, crotchet, mannerism, habit, characteristic, trait, feature, obsession, fad;

French idée fixe;

informal hang-up, thing;

rare singularity.

2 by a quirk of history they were related to seven American presidents:

chance, fluke, freak, anomaly, unusual occurrence, turn, peculiar turn of events, twist, twist of fate.