Particularity
noun
A quality or detail about a person or thing that is characteristic or distinctive to them or it.
One particularity of his character is his stubbornness.
Often appears as...
- characteristic particularity
- distinct particularity
noun
The quality of being detailed or specific; attention to small features.
The particularity of her instructions indicates she is serious about it.
Often appears as...
- theoretical particularity
- methodological particularity
Usage tips
Academic
noun
An isolated detail, feature, or incident, especially as dealt with in history or news.
He went over the particularities of the case to make his point.
Often appears as...
- historical particularity
- case study particularity
Usage tips
Academic
noun
A quality or detail about a person or thing that is characteristic or distinctive to them or it.
One particularity of his character is his stubbornness.
Often appears as...
- characteristic particularity
- distinct particularity
noun
The quality of being detailed or specific; attention to small features.
The particularity of her instructions indicates she is serious about it.
Often appears as...
- theoretical particularity
- methodological particularity
Usage tips
Academic
noun
An isolated detail, feature, or incident, especially as dealt with in history or news.
He went over the particularities of the case to make his point.
Often appears as...
- historical particularity
- case study particularity
Usage tips
Academic
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/2Character Uniqueness
Use 'particularity' to describe what sets someone or something apart from others.
Her particularity lies in her ability to solve problems quickly.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Always Positive
'Particularity' can express negative qualities as well as positive ones.
His particularity is his tendency to be overly critical.
Pro Tip 1/2Character Uniqueness
Use 'particularity' to describe what sets someone or something apart from others.
Her particularity lies in her ability to solve problems quickly.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Always Positive
'Particularity' can express negative qualities as well as positive ones.
His particularity is his tendency to be overly critical.
Pro Tip 1/2Character Uniqueness
Use 'particularity' to describe what sets someone or something apart from others.
Her particularity lies in her ability to solve problems quickly.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Always Positive
'Particularity' can express negative qualities as well as positive ones.
His particularity is his tendency to be overly critical.
Compare with
characteridiosyncrasyindividualitypeculiarityquirkysingularityspecificityunique
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Quote examples
Sean M. Carroll
American Scientist
Science isn't just about solving this or that puzzle. It's about understanding how the world works: the whole world from the vastness of the cosmos to the particularity of an individual human life. It's worth thinking about how all the different ways we have to talk about the world manage to fit together.
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Joshua Cohen
American Writer
When knowledge no longer becomes the commodity of the few, but in a sense becomes equalized by everyone having access, you lose some aspect of Jewish particularity, or at least a Jewish particularity that is fundamental to the construct of Jews as people of the book, which was always interesting.
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Jacques Lacan
French Psychologist
But this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a general type from phenomena whose particularity in our work would remain the essential thing for you, and whose original arrangement could be broken up only artificially.
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Lionel Trilling
American Critic
The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.
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Hari Kunzru
British Novelist
But it's the particularity of a place, the physical experience of being in a place, that makes it onto the page. That's why I don't just do library research. I very rarely write about somewhere I haven't been.
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Ross Douthat
American Author
It is not white nationalism to recognize limiting principles on liberal universalism, and a justifiable role for particularity - ethnic, cultural, religious - in many political arrangements.
Quote examples
Sean M. Carroll
American Scientist
Science isn't just about solving this or that puzzle. It's about understanding how the world works: the whole world from the vastness of the cosmos to the particularity of an individual human life. It's worth thinking about how all the different ways we have to talk about the world manage to fit together.
Quote examples
Joshua Cohen
American Writer
When knowledge no longer becomes the commodity of the few, but in a sense becomes equalized by everyone having access, you lose some aspect of Jewish particularity, or at least a Jewish particularity that is fundamental to the construct of Jews as people of the book, which was always interesting.
Quote examples
Jacques Lacan
French Psychologist
But this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a general type from phenomena whose particularity in our work would remain the essential thing for you, and whose original arrangement could be broken up only artificially.
Quote examples
Lionel Trilling
American Critic
The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.
Quote examples
Hari Kunzru
British Novelist
But it's the particularity of a place, the physical experience of being in a place, that makes it onto the page. That's why I don't just do library research. I very rarely write about somewhere I haven't been.
Quote examples
Ross Douthat
American Author
It is not white nationalism to recognize limiting principles on liberal universalism, and a justifiable role for particularity - ethnic, cultural, religious - in many political arrangements.
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