circumstantiality
Americannoun
plural
circumstantialities-
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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It seemed to her almost as if he took pleasure in the pleasing broad circumstantiality of the story as he told it.
From Gabriel A Story of the Jews in Prague by Kohn, Spiegfried
"But the better to vamp up a show of reality, "The tale must be told with circumstantiality, "What vessels were conquered by Britain's bold sons, "Their quotas of men, and their number of guns.
From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) by Freneau, Philip
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
A faithful delineation of these phenomena, as well as of those which we proceed to consider, can only be given by sketching individual features with the animated circumstantiality of reality.
From COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 by Humboldt, Alexander von
The circumstantiality of the account was equally horrible and amusing.
From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by Willis, N. Parker
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