particularity

Meaning

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

Synonyms

peculiarity

characteristic

carefulness

detail

individuality

nicety

particular

specialness

identity

idiosyncrasy

idiosyncresy

lineament

mark

minuteness

personhood

detailed catalogue

pecularity

cavil

preciosity

punctiliousness

singularity

speciality

specially

word splitting

specification

squeamishness

streak

thoroughness

trait

circumstance

circumstantiality

uniqueness

fastidiousness

feature

Translations

particolarità

particularité

particularidade

particularidad

propre

precisie

raffinement

Besonderheit

Genauigkeit

nauwkeurigheid

Sorgfalt

Verwöhntheit

ιδιαίτερη μεταχείριση

ιδιαιτερότητα

particularitat

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pəˌtɪkjʊˈlæɹɪti/

Etymology

Cognate with French: particularité

In summary

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).