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particularization

particularization

8.8
Giving a detailed description of one example
  • noun
  • /pərˌtɪkjʊlərɪˈzeɪʃən/
translation icon : particularización
  • These fragmentations and particularizations present a problem for literary critics who want to tell a story about the emergence of "the modern," a story that necessarily involves a large, integrated organism named "English culture."

I am, you know, going through this entire development of action, particularization and tension.

Examples

  • Does this particularization of U.S. legislation and regulation create a continuing need for review of these regulations?

    Academic text (1992)
  • We "convert" now from concentration and particularization to simplification and dilation.

    Academic text (1993)
  • I am, you know, going through this entire development of action, particularization and tension.

  • Thus, it appeared that a further particularization of what types of speech were indispensable to a democratic society, and which were not, might be required.

    Academic text (1996)
  • As we have seen, the latter is characterized by concentration and particularization; that is, the "individuation" of a compact, formed, named, defined, knowing "I."

    Academic text (1993)
  • Of course, Manent quickly adds, this actualization is itself, and necessarily so, a particularization: "by becoming political, the rational animal consents to a certain particularity, to a certain partiality."

    Academic text (2002)
  • If we should ever seek a comprehensive pigeonhole, there should only be one: creative particularizations of procedural generalities, based on the threefold workings of creativity, valuing, and spirit.

    Academic text (2000)
  • Moreover, the terms of this truth and the particular desire that drives this urgency, I believe, are specifiable beyond such generalizations - though, as I hope to make clear, this ideological particularization must begin with and take into full account the peculiarly paradoxical rhetoric of Swift's work.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • The researcher focused on the particularization of case studies to highlight individual differences in behavior.

  • In his essay, he discussed the particularization of historical events, providing detailed accounts of each incident.

Synonyms

specification
vsparticularization
12 4.4

Giving clear details so others understand

applies this clarity to one specific case or example
explication
vsparticularization
  • Literature
2 8.1

A clear, detailed explanation that helps you understand a text or idea

describes a particular instance rather than explaining its meaning
delineation
vsparticularization
  • Formal
1 6.8

A clear description that shows how something looks or feels

is more neutral and tied to a single instance rather than vivid portrayal
detailing
vsparticularization
1 4.1

A full description that gives all the important facts

focuses on describing a single case rather than listing general features

Antonyms

43 5.3

A statement that applies to many people or situations

How Detailed

exhaustiveness
  • Formal
7.5
particularization
8.8
detailing
1 4.1
specification
12 4.4
generalization
  • US
43 5.3

Surface Forms

Morphology

particularization = particularize (transparent) = particular + ize + ation

The noun is a regular nominalization of the verb 'particularize' with the suffix '-ation', yielding the process/result meaning.

Etymology

Particularization comes from the common word part, which means 'piece', and from particular, meaning 'about a single part or case'. So particularization is the process of breaking a general idea into parts and giving specific, detailed information about one case.