circumstantiality
Americannoun
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the quality of being circumstantial; minuteness; fullness of detail.
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a circumstance; a detail.
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Psychiatry. a pattern of speech that seems to wander because of excessive detail but eventuallyreaches its goal idea.
Etymology
Origin of circumstantiality
First recorded in 1725–35; circumstantial + -ity
Example Sentences
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For they both had, not without reason, a great terror of the rector's circumstantiality.
From Seed-time and Harvest A Novel by Reuter, Fritz
Their readiness, their resources, their promptitude, the elaborate circumstantiality of their lies are astonishing.
From Epilepsy, Hysteria, and Neurasthenia Their Causes, Symptoms, & Treatment by Briggs, Isaac George
This myth comes to us from Germany—at all events, Mr. R. A. Proctor traced it there with much circumstantiality.
From Storyology Essays in Folk-Lore, Sea-Lore, and Plant-Lore by Taylor, Benjamin
And Mrs. Anderson forthwith proceeded to detail the particulars of the quarrel and subsequent encounter, with a minuteness and circumstantiality which, we fear, the reader would think rather tedious were we here to repeat.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume III by Various
I had learnt every circumstance from Wingrove himself, and was able to set them forth with all the circumstantiality of truth itself.
From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Reid, Mayne
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