particularity Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the quality of being particular and pertaining to a specific case or instance
    specialness.
    • the particularity of human situations

WordNet


Par*tic`u*lar"i*ty noun
Etymology
Cf. F. particularité.
Wordforms
plural Particularities
Definitions
  1. The state or quality of being particular; distinctiveness; circumstantiality; minuteness in detail.
  2. That which is particular; as: (a) Peculiar quality; individual characteristic; peculiarity. "An old heathen altar with this particularity." Addison. (b) Special circumstance; minute detail; particular. "Even descending to particularities." Sir P. Sidney. (c) Something of special or private concern or interest.
    Let the general trumpet blow his blast, Particularities and petty sounds To cease! Shak
    .

Webster 1913