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/pərtˌɪkjəlˈærəti/ Listen

noun

Particularity n. (pl. particularities)

The state or quality of being particular; distinctiveness; circumstantiality; minuteness in detail.

That which is particular; as:

(a)

Peculiar quality; individual characteristic; peculiarity. "An old heathen altar with this particularity."

(b)

Special circumstance; minute detail; particular. "Even descending to particularities."

(c)

Something of special or private concern or interest. "Let the general trumpet blow his blast, Particularities and petty sounds To cease!"

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Etymology of 'Particularity'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... man moved out of sight. But his face had made in those few thrilling seconds a deep impression on Hilda; so that in her mind she still saw it, with an almost physical particularity of detail. It presented itself to her, in some mysterious way, as a romantic visage, wistful, full of sad subtleties, of the unknown and the seductive, and of a latent benevolence. It was as recondite and as sympathetic as the town in which she ...

— Hilda Lessways • Arnold Bennett

... rightly saw that history was irreducible to concepts, that it is the contemplation of the individual, and therefore not a science. Having proceeded thus far, he might have gone further, and realized that the material of history is always the particular in its particularity, that of art what is and always is identical. But he preferred to execute a variation on the general motive that was in fashion at ...

— Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic • Benedetto Croce

... she spoke; and Elinor, to screen Marianne from particularity, as she felt almost certain of its not being Willoughby, quickened her pace and kept up with her. They were soon within thirty yards of the gentleman. Marianne looked again; her heart sunk within her; and abruptly turning round, she was hurrying back, when ...

— Persuasion • Jane Austen

... of the sites left something to be desired in particularity. But that, I reasoned, rather made for Tobias's veracity than otherwise. Were the document merely a hoax, as John continued to suspect, its author would have indulged his imagination in greater elaboration. The very simplicity of the directions ...

— Pieces of Eight • Richard le Gallienne

... on himself, and added that it was the last time he ever went away without a formal leave of absence. His particularity in little things has often been commented on. He applied it to all his affairs. Dr. Kirkpatrick, Professor of Moral Philosophy, came into the president's office and asked for a certain paper. My father told him where it could be found. After a while, turning ...

— Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee • Captain Robert E. Lee, His Son

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