Usually means: Excessive detail obscures communication's point.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word circumstantiality:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. circumstantiality: Merriam-Webster
  2. circumstantiality: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. circumstantiality: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. circumstantiality: Collins English Dictionary
  5. circumstantiality: Wordnik
  6. circumstantiality: Wiktionary
  7. circumstantiality: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. circumstantiality: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. circumstantiality: Dictionary.com
  10. Circumstantiality: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Circumstantiality: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. circumstantiality: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Circumstantiality: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. circumstantiality: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. circumstantiality: FreeDictionary.org
  16. circumstantiality: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. circumstantiality: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. circumstantiality: Legal dictionary

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. circumstantiality: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Terms in the field of Psychiatry and Neurology (No longer online)
  5. circumstantiality: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (circumstantiality)

▸ noun:  (uncountable) Extreme attention to minute or irrelevant detail.
▸ noun:  (countable) A minor detail or circumstantial matter.

Similar:
circumstantialness, particularity, detail, subtility, exactitude, nuance, punctiliousness, preciosity, meticulosity, thoroughness, more...

Opposite:
directness, clarity, conciseness

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Similar:
circumstantialness, particularity, detail, subtility, exactitude, nuance, punctiliousness, preciosity, meticulosity, thoroughness, more...

Opposite:
directness, clarity, conciseness



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