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Particularity

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. The state or quality of being particular; distinctiveness; circumstantiality; minuteness in detail.

2. That which is particular; as:

3. Peculiar quality; individual characteristic; peculiarity. "An old heathen altar with this particularity." Addison.

4. Special circumstance; minute detail; particular. "Even descending to particularities." Sir P. Sidney.

5. Something of special or private concern or interest. Let the general trumpet blow his blast, Particularities and petty sounds To cease! Shak .

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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