particularity

[ per-tik-yuh-lar-i-tee, puh-tik- ]

noun

, plural par·tic·u·lar·i·ties.

1. the quality or state of being particular.
2. detailed, minute, or circumstantial character, as of description or statement.
3. attention to details; special care.
4. fastidiousness.
5. an individual or characteristic feature or trait; peculiarity.

particularity

/ pəˌtɪkjʊˈlærɪtɪ /

noun

1. often plural a specific circumstance

   the particularities of the affair

2. great attentiveness to detail; fastidiousness
3. the quality of being precise

   a description of great particularity

4. the state or quality of being particular as opposed to general; individuality

   the particularity of human situations

Word History and Origins

Origin of particularity¹

1520–30; < Middle French particularite < Late Latin particulāritāt- (stem of particulāritās ) state of being apart. See particular, -ity

Example Sentences

“We are increasingly looking into taking successful formats and then making them in other languages — not translating it, but rather refitting it to fit the particularities of the culture,” Osborn said.

From Digiday

Some of the constitutional particularities have changed, but the fundamental issues have not.

From Time

Conducting meaningful review and having particularity in citing violations is also necessary, she said.

From Washington Blade

He had himself embraced Islam, though his coworkers do not remember him as being particularity religious.

From The Daily Beast

The particularity of the crimes documented there is what most chilled me on a trip to Ludwigsburg to research a book.

From The Daily Beast

“The particularity of our study is that it is the first conducted on a country-wide level,” she tells The Daily Beast in Paris.

From The Daily Beast

How to get over, how to escape from, the besotting particularity of fiction.

From Project Gutenberg

The first trial which has been reported with any degree of particularity belongs to the year 1324.

From Project Gutenberg

When I thought on the cause of her particularity about Rachel, I could not laugh any more at her strangeness.

From Project Gutenberg

As the French army were the assailants, it is needless to describe with any particularity their original formation.

From Project Gutenberg

These I shall recount in another volume at another time, with such particularity as those histories may demand.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• idiosyncrasy
• peculiarity
• singularity
• uniqueness