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par·tic·u·lar·i·ty
\ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˈlarəd.ē, -rətē, -i\ noun
(-es)
Etymology: Middle French particularité minute detail, particular, from Late Latin particularitat-, particularitas quality or state of being a part, from particularis particular + Latin -tat-, -tas -ty
1. : something particular: as
a. : a special circumstance : a minute detail : particular
< fixing exclusively on the particularities of the current situation — Will Herberg >
b. : an individual characteristic : distinctive quality or feature : special attribute : peculiarity
< regional life with its particularities of outlook and idiom — Roger Manvell >
< the particularities of French rural society — H.W.Ehrmann >
c. archaic : an eccentric or odd distinction : a peculiar action or characteristic : singularity
2. : the quality or state of being particular: as
a. archaic : the fact or quality of being noteworthy : speciality
b. : the quality or fact of being particular as opposed to universal : quality of being or having a relation to one or some rather than all (as of a class or group) : individuality
< the words … when written alone have of course no particularity — Inland Printer >
< concrete human situations in their complexity and particularity — F.R.Leavis >
c. : attentiveness to detail : precise carefulness (as of description, statement, investigation)
< the unimpaired particularity of the compilation — Times Literary Supplement >
< after the victim of a theft described with particularity the goods he was seeking — Wayne Morse >
< the loving particularity of the essays — Douglas Bush >
d. : preciseness in behavior or expression : fastidiousness
e. archaic : attentive or familiar behavior : intimacy
< this particularity with a young fellow is very indecent — Henry Fielding > |