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particularity |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Particularity \Par*tic`u*lar"i*ty\, n.; pl {Particularities}. [Cf. F. particularit['e].] 1. The state or quality of being particular; distinctiveness; circumstantiality; minuteness in detail. 2. That which is particular; as: a Peculiar quality; individual characteristic; peculiarity. ``An old heathen altar with this particularity.'' --Addison. b Special circumstance; minute detail; particular. ``Even descending to particularities.'' --Sir P. Sidney. c Something of special or private concern or interest. Let the general trumpet blow his blast, Particularities and petty sounds To cease! --Shak. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: particularity n : the quality of being particular and pertaining to a specific case or instance; "the particularity of human situations" [ant: {generality}]
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