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technicality

[ tek-ni-kal-i-tee ]

noun

, plural tech·ni·cal·i·ties
  1. technical character.
  2. the use of technical methods or terms.
  3. something that is technical; a technical point, detail, or expression.


technicality

/ ˌtɛknɪˈkælɪtɪ /

noun

  1. a petty formal point arising from a strict interpretation of rules, etc

    the case was dismissed on a technicality

  2. the state or quality of being technical
  3. technical methods and vocabulary


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Other Words From

  • hyper·techni·cali·ty noun
  • over·techni·cali·ty noun plural overtechnicalities

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Word History and Origins

Origin of technicality1

First recorded in 1805–15; technical + -ity

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Example Sentences

It will not be your legal responsibility, but you're simply winning on a technicality.

He was arrested, tried and, thanks to a technicality, acquitted.

The case was tossed out the following year on a technicality.

The effect would be to knock down California's gay-marriage ban on a technicality, without affecting the rest of the country.

I said “Britcom” earlier; Father Ted is only that on a technicality.

The real experience has a magnetism of its own and will win above mere technicality whenever it has the opportunity.

She slid into the silence with a technicality, asking if John still took his old inordinate amount of sugar.

They are—to fall back on the ancient technicality—Realists of a crude sort.

Should he condemn himself and Doris Cleveland to heartache and loneliness because of a technicality?

This I cal186l the Apology of technicality inspired by tyranny.

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