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PARTICULARITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being particular and pertaining to a specific case or instance
Example:
the particularity of human situations
Synonyms:
particularity; specialness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("particularity" is a kind of...):
quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "particularity"):
specificity (the quality of being specific rather than general)
specificity (the quality of being specific to a particular organism)
Antonym:
generality (the quality of being general or widespread or having general applicability)
Derivation:
particular (unique or specific to a person or thing or category)
particular (separate and distinct from others of the same group or category)
