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particularity

[ per-tik-yuh-lar-i-tee, puh-tik- ]

noun

, plural par·tic·u·lar·i·ties.
  1. the quality or state of being particular.
  2. detailed, minute, or circumstantial character, as of description or statement.
  3. attention to details; special care.
  4. an individual or characteristic feature or trait; peculiarity.


particularity

/ pəˌtɪkjʊˈlærɪtɪ /

noun

  1. often plural a specific circumstance

    the particularities of the affair

  2. great attentiveness to detail; fastidiousness
  3. the quality of being precise

    a description of great particularity

  4. the state or quality of being particular as opposed to general; individuality

    the particularity of human situations



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Word History and Origins

Origin of particularity1

1520–30; < Middle French particularite < Late Latin particulāritāt- (stem of particulāritās ) state of being apart. See particular, -ity

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Example Sentences

“We are increasingly looking into taking successful formats and then making them in other languages — not translating it, but rather refitting it to fit the particularities of the culture,” Osborn said.

From Digiday

Some of the constitutional particularities have changed, but the fundamental issues have not.

From Time

Conducting meaningful review and having particularity in citing violations is also necessary, she said.

He had himself embraced Islam, though his coworkers do not remember him as being particularity religious.

The particularity of the crimes documented there is what most chilled me on a trip to Ludwigsburg to research a book.

“The particularity of our study is that it is the first conducted on a country-wide level,” she tells The Daily Beast in Paris.

How to get over, how to escape from, the besotting particularity of fiction.

The first trial which has been reported with any degree of particularity belongs to the year 1324.

When I thought on the cause of her particularity about Rachel, I could not laugh any more at her strangeness.

As the French army were the assailants, it is needless to describe with any particularity their original formation.

These I shall recount in another volume at another time, with such particularity as those histories may demand.

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