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particularity
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As a noun, particularity means a particular thing.
Meanings of particularity
11 meaningsnoun
A particular thing.
A distinctive characteristic or quality; a peculiarity.
“Donny’s obsession for trains is just a harmless particularity of his.”
(obsolete) A particular case or matter.
The condition of being particular rather than general or universal; specificity.
(Christianity, theology) The doctrine of the incarnation of God as Jesus occurring at a particular place and time.
(Christianity, Judaism, theology, obsolete) Synonym of particularism ("the principle that only certain people are chosen by God for salvation")
Attention to detail; fastidiousness.
(obsolete) The condition of being special; peculiarity, specialness.
(obsolete) The condition of being special in an unexpected way; oddness, strangeness; (countable) an instance of this.
(obsolete) The paying of particular close attention to someone; (countable) an instance of this.
The quality of being particular and pertaining to a specific case or instance
“the particularity of human situations”
Similar: specialness
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).