Circumstantiality

Quick meaning: Circumstantiality is a noun meaning (uncountable) Extreme attention to minute or irrelevant detail.

Meaning

(uncountable) Extreme attention to minute or irrelevant detail.

More Meanings

1. (countable) A minor detail or circumstantial matter.

Example Sentences

There was much discussion at the time, in some of the public journals, upon the possibility of reconciling these incidents with other circumstantialities of the case, supposing that only one man had been concerned in the affair. That there was only one man concerned, seems to be certain.

Plushkin's list was distinguished by a conciseness of exposition which had led to certain of the items being represented merely by Christian name, patronymic, and a couple of dots; and Sobakevitch's list was remarkable for its amplitude and circumstantiality, in that not a single peasant had such of his peculiar characteristics omitted as that the deceased had been "excellent at joinery," or "sober and ready to pay attention to his work."

Word Forms

• circumstantialities

Synonyms for circumstantiality

Depending on context, synonyms include circumstantialness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include circumstantialness, particularity, detail, subtility, exactitude, nuance.

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