noun
Meaning 1
A particular thing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: particular
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
particularity
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /pəˌtɪkjʊˈlæɹɪti/
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Received-Pronunciation: /pɑː-/
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General-American: /pə(ɹ)ˌtɪkjəˈlɛɹəti/
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General-American: /pɑɹ-/
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General-American: [-ɾi]
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rhymes with -æɹɪti
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CMU ARPABET: P ER0 T IH2 K Y AH0 L AE1 R AH0 T IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A distinctive characteristic or quality; a peculiarity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- Donny’s obsession for trains is just a harmless particularity of his.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: differentia, discrimen
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A particular case or matter.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
The condition of being particular rather than general or universal; specificity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: particularness, individuality, particularity, peculiarity, propriety, singularity, specialty, specificity, specificness
Antonyms: catholicity, generality, genericity, genericness, universality
noun
Meaning 5
The condition of being particular rather than general or universal; specificity.
The doctrine of the incarnation of God as Jesus occurring at a particular place and time.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: Christianity, lifestyle, religion, theology
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: particularness, individuality, particularity, peculiarity, propriety, singularity, specialty, specificity, specificness
Antonyms: catholicity, generality, genericity, genericness, universality
noun
Meaning 6
The condition of being particular rather than general or universal; specificity.
Synonym of particularism (“the principle that only certain people are chosen by God for salvation”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Judaism, countable, obsolete, uncountable
Topics: Christianity, lifestyle, religion, theology
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: particularness, individuality, particularity, peculiarity, propriety, singularity, specialty, specificity, specificness, particularism
Antonyms: catholicity, generality, genericity, genericness, universality
noun
Meaning 7
Attention to detail; fastidiousness.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: scrupulousness
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 8
The condition of being special; peculiarity, specialness.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: distinction
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 9
The condition of being special in an unexpected way; oddness, strangeness; (countable) an instance of this.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: oddity, singularity
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 10
The paying of particular close attention to someone; (countable) an instance of this.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 11
the quality of being particular and pertaining to a specific case or instance
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the particularity of human situations
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: specialness
Antonyms: generality
Broader terms: quality
Narrower terms: specificity
History
Etymology
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).
Across languages
Translations
17 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Finnish: asia — particular thing
- Finnish: yksityiskohta — particular thing
- Arabic: خُصُوص (ḵuṣūṣ) — distinctive characteristic or quality — see also peculiarity
- Azerbaijani: təfərrüat — distinctive characteristic or quality — see also peculiarity
- Catalan: particularitat — distinctive characteristic or quality — see also peculiarity
- Finnish: erityispiirre — distinctive characteristic or quality — see also peculiarity
- Finnish: ominaispiirre — distinctive characteristic or quality — see also peculiarity
- Hindi: विशेषता (viśeṣtā) — distinctive characteristic or quality — see also peculiarity
- Irish: leithleachas — distinctive characteristic or quality — see also peculiarity
- Italian: particolarità — distinctive characteristic or quality — see also peculiarity
- Lithuanian: ypatýbė — distinctive characteristic or quality — see also peculiarity
- Macedonian: особеност (osobenost) — distinctive characteristic or quality — see also peculiarity
- Portuguese: particularidade — distinctive characteristic or quality — see also peculiarity
- Romanian: particularitate — distinctive characteristic or quality — see also peculiarity
- Russian: подро́бность (podróbnostʹ) — distinctive characteristic or quality — see also peculiarity
- Spanish: particularidad — distinctive characteristic or quality — see also peculiarity
- Finnish: partikularismi — doctrine of the incarnation of God as Jesus occurring at a particular place and time