noun · countable / uncountable · rare

particularity

par·ti·cu·lar·i·ty

particularity · particularities

подробность

A particular thingA particular thing.

UK/pəˌtɪkjʊˈlæɹɪti/US/pə(ɹ)ˌtɪkjəˈlɛɹəti/

» Every language has its particularities.

Jede Sprache hat ihre Besonderheiten.

У каждого языка свои особенности.

Meaning

10 senses

(countable, uncountable)A particular thing.
(countable, uncountable)A distinctive characteristic or quality; a peculiarity.
Donny’s obsession for trains is just a harmless particularity of his.
подро́бностьpodróbnostʹ
(countable, uncountable)The condition of being particular rather than general or universal; specificity.
The condition of being particular rather than general or universal; specificity.
(countable, uncountable)The doctrine of the incarnation of God as Jesus occurring at a particular place and time.
(countable, uncountable)Attention to detail; fastidiousness.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)A particular case or matter.
the quality of being particular and pertaining to a specific case or instance
The condition of being particular rather than general or universal; specificity.
(Judaism, countable, obsolete, uncountable)Synonym of particularism (“the principle that only certain people are chosen by God for salvation”).
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)The condition of being special; peculiarity, specialness.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)The condition of being special in an unexpected way; oddness, strangeness; (countable) an instance of this.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)The paying of particular close attention to someone; (countable) an instance of this.

Examples

1 sentences

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Translations

4 languages

Русский

By meaning 1

distinctive characteristic or quality — see also peculiarity:

Origin

From Middle French particularité (“part of a whole; something particular, particularity”)

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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