Definition of Particularity

1. Noun. The quality of being particular and pertaining to a specific case or instance. "The particularity of human situations"

Exact synonyms: Specialness
Generic synonyms: Quality
Specialized synonyms: Specificity, Specificity
Antonyms: Generality
Derivative terms: Particular, Particular

Definition of Particularity

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

Definition of Particularity

1. Noun. The condition of being particular; attention to detail; fastidiousness ¹

2. Noun. A particular thing; a peculiarity ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Particularity

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Particularity

particular Churches
particular integral
particular integrals
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particularisations
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particulate
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particulate matter
particulate radiation

Literary usage of Particularity

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopædia of Pleading and Practice: Under the Codes and Practice Acts by William Mark McKinney, Thomas Johnson Michie (1901)
"... and it is neither necessary nor proper to refer to the origin and history of the property.1 Particularity Required in Detinue and Replevin. ..."

2. A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume (1874)
"Such body Locke held to be subject of ' primary qualities': but are these compatible with particularity in time ? becoming an abstract idea, is supposed to ..."

3. A Treatise Upon the Law of Pleading Under the Codes of Civil Porcedure of by Philemon Bliss (1894)
""No greater Particularity is required than the Nature of the Thing pleaded will ... "Less Particularity is required where the Facts lie more within the ..."

4. Lectures on the Philosophy of History by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, John Sibree (1902)
"We behold them beginning their work by bringing all social relations under the form of particularity—with dull and narrow intelligence splitting that which ..."

5. A Treatise on the Principles of Pleading in Civil Actions: Comprising a by Henry John Stephen, Samuel Williston (1895)
"... than of the plaintiff's, there was no occasion to state them with more particularity," and gave judgment accordingly. (&) 10. Less particularity is ..."

6. The Christian Examiner (1829)
"I will, for the benefit of those unacquainted with the practice'—' give a description of this particularity, as practised by those who had been thoroughly ..."

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