particularity
Americannoun
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the quality or state of being particular.
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detailed, minute, or circumstantial character, as of description or statement.
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attention to details; special care.
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an individual or characteristic feature or trait; peculiarity.
noun
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(often plural) a specific circumstance
the particularities of the affair
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great attentiveness to detail; fastidiousness
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the quality of being precise
a description of great particularity
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the state or quality of being particular as opposed to general; individuality
the particularity of human situations
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Etymology
Origin of particularity
1520–30; < Middle French particularite < Late Latin particulāritāt- (stem of particulāritās ) state of being apart. See particular, -ity
Example Sentences
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Particularity contends with its like, and some loss is involved in the issue.
Particularity and intimate relation cannot be divided,—in the former case in consequence of the infinite number of separate particularities, in the latter from intimate relation being but one; their definitions have been given before.
From The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy by Acharya, Madhava
To pass my Evenings in so sweet a Conversation, and have the Esteem of a Woman of your Merit, has in it a Particularity of Happiness no more to be express'd than return'd.
From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph
The more important differences of subject, involving differences of method, are seen in such contrasted departments as Science and Language, Thought and Style, Reality and Poetry, Generality and Particularity.
From Practical Essays by Bain, Alexander
I thought to have seen some Particularity at his Funeral, but was very much surpriz'd, that I did not observe the least Circumstance at it more than at common Interments.
From The Travels and Adventures of James Massey by Patot, Simon Tyssot de
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