Particularity

/pəˌtɪkjʊˈlæɹɪti/ · noun

Meaning

A particular thing..

Definitions by Sense

1. A particular thing.
2. A distinctive characteristic or quality; a peculiarity.
3. A particular case or matter.
4. The condition of being particular rather than general or universal; specificity.
5. Attention to detail; fastidiousness.
6. The condition of being special; peculiarity, specialness.
7. The condition of being special in an unexpected way; oddness, strangeness; (countable) an instance of this.
8. The paying of particular close attention to someone; (countable) an instance of this.

Example Sentences

In this particularity vvhereof vve novv ſpeake, ſee hovv his Mercy and Truth are met together, and doe moſt lovingly embrace each other.

[I]f they never hear plain truth from men, they see the best of every thing, in every kind, and they see things so grouped and amassed as to infer easily the sum and genius, instead of tedious particularities.

Donny’s obsession for trains is just a harmless particularity of his.

Novv let the generall Trumpet blovv his blaſt, / Particularities, and pettie ſounds / To ceaſe.

[W]e Chriſtians, vnto vvhom it is reuealed in particularity, that all Men came from one Lumpe of Earth; […]

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!

An indefinite Propoſition, is, vvhen no Note, either of Univerſality or Particularity, is prefixed to a Subject, vvhich is in its ovvn Nature general; as, a Planet is ever changing its Place: Angels are noble Creatures.

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.

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