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Particularity
Definitions
- 1 A particular thing. countable, uncountable
"In this particularity vvhereof vve novv ſpeake, ſee hovv his Mercy and Truth are met together, and doe moſt lovingly embrace each other."
- 2 the quality of being particular and pertaining to a specific case or instance wordnet
- 3 A distinctive characteristic or quality; a peculiarity. countable, uncountable
"Donny’s obsession for trains is just a harmless particularity of his."
- 4 A particular case or matter. countable, obsolete, uncountable
"Novv let the generall Trumpet blovv his blaſt, / Particularities, and pettie ſounds / To ceaſe."
- 5 The condition of being particular rather than general or universal; specificity. countable, uncountable
"But true Religion sprung from God above / Is like her fountain full of charity, / […] / [F]ree, large, even infinite, / Not wedg'd in strait particularity, / But grasping all in her vast active spright, / Bright lamp of God! that men would joy in thy pure light!"
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- 6 The condition of being particular rather than general or universal; specificity.; The doctrine of the incarnation of God as Jesus occurring at a particular place and time. countable, uncountable
- 7 The condition of being particular rather than general or universal; specificity.; Synonym of particularism (“the principle that only certain people are chosen by God for salvation”). Judaism, countable, obsolete, uncountable
- 8 Attention to detail; fastidiousness. countable, uncountable
"There is no part of the Goſpel vvrit vvith ſo copious a Particularity, as the Hiſtory of his [Jesus's] Sufferings and Death; as there vvas indeed no part of the Goſpel ſo important as this is."
- 9 The condition of being special; peculiarity, specialness. countable, obsolete, uncountable
"To pass my evenings in so sweet a conversation, and have the esteem of a woman of your merit, has in it a particularity of happiness no more to be expressed than returned."
- 10 The condition of being special in an unexpected way; oddness, strangeness; (countable) an instance of this. countable, obsolete, uncountable
"No man ought to be tolerated in a habitual humour, whim, or particularity of behaviour, by any who do not wait upon him for bread."
- 11 The paying of particular close attention to someone; (countable) an instance of this. countable, obsolete, uncountable
"Whenever they met, they talked to each other aloud, chose each other partner at balls, saluted at the most conspicuous parts of the service of the church, and practised, in honour of each other, all the remarkable particularities which are usual for persons who admire one another, and are contemptible to the rest of the world."
Etymology
From Middle French particularité (“part of a whole; something particular, particularity”) (modern French particularité), and from its etymon Late Latin particularitas (“fact or quality of being particular; something particular, particularity”), from Latin particulāris (“particular; partial”) + -tās (suffix forming feminine abstract nouns indicating a state of being). Particulāris is derived from particula (“particle, small part”) (from pars (“a part, piece, portion, share”) (probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *perh₃- (“to provide, produce, beget”)) + -cula (diminutive suffix)) + -āris (suffix denoting a relationship, forming adjectives). The English word is analysable as particular + -ity (suffix forming nouns from adjectives, referring to the properties, qualities, or states of what is denoted by the adjectives).
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