PARTICULARITY • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Particularity

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/pərtˌɪkjəlˈærəti/ Listen

noun

Particularity n. (pl. particularities)

The state or quality of being particular; distinctiveness; circumstantiality; minuteness in detail.

That which is particular; as:

(a)

Peculiar quality; individual characteristic; peculiarity. "An old heathen altar with this particularity."

(b)

Special circumstance; minute detail; particular. "Even descending to particularities."

(c)

Something of special or private concern or interest. "Let the general trumpet blow his blast, Particularities and petty sounds To cease!"

See images of 'Particularity'

Etymology of 'Particularity'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Particularity" Quotes from Famous Books

... brought the princes to the knowledge of Christ, and offered to expiate it in any way he was directed. He was bidden to restore the Christian Religion, to repair the ruined churches, and to found new ones. The whole story is told with great particularity by the chronicler, and it was represented in stained glass in the cloisters of the abbey, as ...

— The Cathedral Church of Peterborough - A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See • W.D. Sweeting

... precarious footing amongst musicians up to 1650. After that time, the viols declined in favour, and so rapidly, that at the very beginning of the 18th century, Dr Tudway of Cambridge describes a chest of viols, in a letter to his son, with such particularity, that it is clear they had entirely fallen out of use by 1700. As the viol fell out of fashion, the violin took its place, and has kept it ...

— Shakespeare and Music - With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries • Edward W. Naylor

... said the Prime Minister, "on the particularity and speed with which your department has become informed. That at all ...

— King John of Jingalo - The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties • Laurence Housman

... with such particularity because it will help you to understand the key in which my earlier chapters are written, but you must not imagine that this singular equipment or the smell of the lamp engaged my attention at that time to the slightest degree. I took all this grimy unpleasantness as if it were the ...

— In the Days of the Comet • H. G. Wells

... But then, who would do it? And it was not for Mrs. Eldridge alone. She brushed away with a good heart, while the poor old woman was hovering over the chair on which her supper was set, munching bread and herring with a particularity of attention which shewed how good a good meal was to her. Matilda did not disturb her, and she said never a word to Matilda; till, just as the little girl had brought all the sweepings of the floor to the threshold, where they lay in a heap, and another stroke of the broom ...

— Opportunities • Susan Warner

More quotes...