About The Word Particularity
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Particularity
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What's The Definition Of Particularity?
[n] the quality of being particular and pertaining to a specific case or instance; "the particularity of human situations"
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[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.
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