circumstantiality
Americannoun
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circumstantialities
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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.
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Origin of circumstantiality
First recorded in 1725–35; circumstantial + -ity
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For it is only as language that the picture or the statue avails anything, and this circumstantiality of expression is tolerable only so long as it is the only expression.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 by Various
The speeches abound in details which may be accepted as authentic, either because there is no reason for misrepresentation or on account of their circumstantiality.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various
Their readiness, their resources, their promptitude, the elaborate circumstantiality of their lies are astonishing.
From Epilepsy, Hysteria, and Neurasthenia Their Causes, Symptoms, & Treatment by Isaac George Briggs
It is related with great circumstantiality and with surprising sangfroid by Burchard, the Pope's Master of the Ceremonies.
From Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots by John Addington Symonds
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 N. Parker Willis
But from these narrower questions, directed to circumstantialities local and transitory, we wish to draw the reader's attention upon certain other questions larger and more philosophic.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 by Various
Of course, persons acquainted with the subject have heard the story before, though not with all the circumstantialities now given.
From Notes and Queries, Number 82, May 24, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by George Bell
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