particularity
- noun
- /pərˌtɪkjəˈlærɪti/
- In discussing the problem, she focused on the particularity of this case rather than general principles.
- cultural particularity
- historical particularity
- local particularities
But I'm so I'm skeptical of some of the legal particularities.
- But I'm so I'm skeptical of some of the legal particularities.
- Though terror and fear are your children, You preside over the sensate particularity of creation and so over every shape in the world.
- Very pregnant, huge stress on agency, on particularity here.
- And by doing so, it supersedes particularity.
Examples
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Its meaning derives from the particularities of the Mexican-American urbanization and assimilation experience.
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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.
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Those ties were mostly local, and they gave a strong flavour of local particularity to the society and the culture of the time.
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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.
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So again we have the issue of the particularity and universality.
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And the framework is how does your particularity speak to pluralism?
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Their cosmopolitanism demands of them a greater understanding of the particularity of a given culture not their own.
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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.
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Literary critics have mostly prided themselves on being particular and in speaking for particularity.
Academic text (1994)
Synonyms
The quality of affecting only one kind of living thing or cell
Antonyms
How Specific
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
particularity = particular (transparent) = particular + ity
A regular nominalization from the adjective 'particular' meaning the state or quality of being specific, which is directly deducible.
Etymology
Particularity comes from the simple root part, meaning 'a piece', and from particular, which came to mean 'about one specific thing'. So particularity is the quality of being 'specific to one part or case'.