particularity

Examples

• All

• Its meaning derives from the particularities of the Mexican-American urbanization and assimilation experience.

  Academic text (1990)

• We look at the particularities of this site over another site to the degree that a geography can inform that you're working on something.

• Those ties were mostly local, and they gave a strong flavour of local particularity to the society and the culture of the time.

• However, in Particles he argues that what we share is our particularity, and we fashion this particularity through our seeing and saying of the world.

• So again we have the issue of the particularity and universality.

• And the framework is how does your particularity speak to pluralism?

• Their cosmopolitanism demands of them a greater understanding of the particularity of a given culture not their own.

  Academic text (1991)

• In a very concrete way, the particularity of each person is honored in the universality of Christ.

  Academic text (2008)

• At this level, the characteristics of all music become embedded in the particularities of this and that specific music.

  Academic text (1994)

• Literary critics have mostly prided themselves on being particular and in speaking for particularity.

  Academic text (1994)

Synonyms

S

specificity

vsparticularity

• Specialized

7 7.4

The quality of affecting only one kind of living thing or cell

applies to any single case or instance across contexts not only biology

Antonyms

G

generality

3 6.3

A quality that makes something useful in many situations

How Specific

exactness

2 4.1

precision

• Specialized

157 4.2

specificity

12 7.0

particularity

3 7.2

generality

12 6.5

vagueness

8 6.1

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology