Particularity

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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     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.
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                  Let the general trumpet blow his blast,
                  Particularities and petty sounds
                  To cease!                         --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  particularity
       n : the quality of being particular and pertaining to a specific
           case or instance; "the particularity of human situations"
           [ant: {generality}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  131 Moby Thesaurus words for "particularity":
     accuracy, aroma, attention to detail, attribute, badge, brand,
     cachet, cast, censoriousness, character, characteristic,
     choosiness, circumstantiality, combination, configuration,
     conscientiousness, correctness, criticality, criticalness, cut,
     delicacy, detail, differentia, differential, discriminatingness,
     discrimination, discriminativeness, distinctive feature,
     distinctiveness, earmark, exactingness, exactitude, exactness,
     exquisiteness, fastidiousness, feature, figure, finicality,
     finicalness, finickiness, finickingness, flavor, fusion, fussiness,
     gust, hallmark, identity, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, impress,
     impression, index, individualism, individuality, indivisibility,
     intactness, integrality, integration, integrity, inviolability,
     irreducibility, keynote, lineaments, mannerism, mark, marking,
     meticulousness, minuteness, minuteness of detail, mold, nature,
     niceness, nicety, odor, oneness, organic unity, particularness,
     peculiarity, perfectionism, preciseness, precisianism, precision,
     priggishness, property, prudishness, punctilio, punctiliousness,
     punctuality, purism, puritanism, purity, quality, quirk,
     refinement, rigidness, rigor, rigorousness, savor, scrupulosity,
     scrupulousness, seal, selectiveness, selectivity, selfsameness,
     sensitivity, shape, simplicity, singleness, singularity, smack,
     solidarity, solidification, solidity, specialty, specificity,
     stamp, strictness, subtlety, taint, tang, taste, token, trait,
     trick, undividedness, unification, uniformity, uniqueness, unity,
     univocity, wholeness