particularizationn.
/pəˌtɪkjᵿlərʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, U.S. /pə(r)ˌtɪkjələrəˈzeɪʃən/, /pə(r)ˌtɪkjələˌraɪˈzeɪʃən/, /pɑrˌtɪkjələrəˈzeɪʃən/, /pɑrˌtɪkjələˌraɪˈzeɪʃən/ 1. Individual or detailed description, mention, or treatment; specification.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > the quality of being specific > [noun] > quality of being specific or detailed > specific or detailed mention, enumeration, etc.
particularizing1604
particularization1641
specification1642
itemization1894
1641 S. Marshall et al. Answer Hvmble Remonstr. (1653) 53 This particularization of Peter did not import any singular preheminence or majoritie of power to Peter more then to the other Apostles.
1657 J. Sergeant Schism Dispach't 410 With such allusion to his name, and other particularisations, as..are apt to breed an expectation of something particular in the thing promised.
1798 W. Taylor in J. W. Robberds Mem. W. Taylor (1843) I. 217 Enterprises, for the particularization of which they afford ample materials.
1876 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. 2nd Ser. 240 This power of particularization is what gives such vigor and greatness to single lines and sentiments of Wordsworth.
1991 F. Spalding Dance till Stars come Down (BNC) 170 In the Death of Nelson..tragedy is distilled through the juxtaposition of stillness with harsh activity, communal effort and individual particularization.
2001 N.Y. Law Jrnl. (Nexis) 5 June 3 A criminal defendant..is ordinarily deprived of any meaningful pretrial particularization of the evidence that will be used against him.
2. The action of making something particular as opposed to general; restriction to a particular thing.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or restricted in application > [noun] > quality of being particular or not general > making particular
particularization1836
1836 A. De Morgan Differential & Integral Calculus 583 (note) The difficulty arises from the particularization of the meaning of δ being made a little too early in the process.
1936 N. Feather Introd. Nucl. Physics iv. 65 (note) It is generally assumed that this distance does not vary much from one nucleus to another—nor, if there is any significance in further particularisation, from point to point in a heavy nucleus.
1964 S. Jacobson Adverbial Positions in Eng. i. 38 Several adverbs and adverbial phrases, especially such as express restriction or particularization, refer to, i.e. direct attention to, some particular constituent within the sentence.
1979 A. J. Ayer in T. Honderich & M. Burnyeat Philos. as it Is 328 It might..be thought that privacy accrued to them [sc. qualia] when they were turned into percepts, in as much as their particularization has been made to depend on their location in sense-fields which are presented to a single observer.
2003 Jrnl. Men's Stud. (Nexis) 22 Sept. 11 111 Chapters 3 through 5 explore white masculinity's particularization in a range of popular novels, psychological treatises, and sexology manuals.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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