particularity
Americannoun
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particularities
plural
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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
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
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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A notice issued to the lead claimant in the case, Natalie Barstow, was "unduly broad and lacking in particularity", he said.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
This was tender and not sweet because it was anchored in a particularity the audience needed to hear.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 2026
The West Coast particularity may be a blessing and a curse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2024
An interesting particularity of the publication is that both of its first authors are master students.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 11, 2024
Experimenters have to insist on the particularity of experience, but they also have to claim that general conclusions can be drawn from specific examples.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Cruz, who was defending the potential of U.S. collaboration, was strikingly uninformed about the particularities of what would be a massively high-stakes foreign policy investment.
From Slate ● Jun. 21, 2025
If his words literally refer to exorcism’s particularities, they subtextually wrestle with faith as a notion, and trickle into broader political life, too.
From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2025
He needs it more than he lets on, and slowly, O’Sullivan’s script reveals that the particularities of “Romeo and Juliet” strike home for Dan in a way he never anticipated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2024
While this is rather easy in classical computing, it is a great challenge in quantum computing, due to the particularities of the quantum world.
From Science Daily ● May 21, 2024
It is ever the lot of children to accept their circumstances as universal, and their particularities as general.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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