characteristic vs peculiarity

peculiarity vs characteristic

characteristic and peculiarity both are nouns.

characteristic is an adjective but peculiarity is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
characteristic	Yes	Yes	No	No
peculiarity	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, peculiarity is a hyponym of characteristic; that is, peculiarity is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than characteristic:

characteristic: a prominent attribute or aspect of something
peculiarity: an odd or unusual characteristic

Other hyponyms of characteristic include sex character, sex characteristic, sexual characteristic, invariant, aspect, facet, attracter, attraction, attractive feature, attractor, magnet, badge, centerpiece, centrepiece, contour, excellence, excellency, external, distinctive feature, distinguishing characteristic, safety feature.

characteristic (noun)	peculiarity (noun)
a distinguishing quality; a feature that can be used to identify something	something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting
any measurable property of a device measured under closely specified conditions	a distinguishing trait
a prominent attribute or aspect of something	an odd or unusual characteristic
the integer part (positive or negative) of the representation of a logarithm; in the expression log 643 = 2.808 the characteristic is 2

characteristic (adjective)	peculiarity (adjective)
typical or distinctive

Difference between characteristic and peculiarity

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