foible
noun/ˈfɔɪbl/
/ˈfɔɪbl/
- a silly habit or a strange or weak aspect of a person’s character that is not considered serious by other people synonym idiosyncrasy
- We have to tolerate each other's little foibles.
- He often writes about the workings of government and the foibles of politicians.
- I soon got used to his little foibles.
Word Originlate 16th cent. (as an adjective in the sense ‘feeble’): from obsolete French, in Old French fieble, from Latin flebilis ‘lamentable’, from flere ‘weep’. This sense also formerly occurred as a sense of the word feeble and dates from the 17th cent.
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