Usually means: Specific, unique detail or characteristic.
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  1. particularity: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. particularity: Merriam-Webster
  3. particularity: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. particularity: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. particularity: Collins English Dictionary
  6. particularity: Vocabulary.com
  7. Particularity, particularity: Wordnik
  8. particularity: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. particularity: Wiktionary
  10. particularity: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. particularity: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. particularity: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Particularity, particularity: Dictionary.com
  14. Particularity: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. particularity: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. particularity: Rhymezone
  17. Particularity: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. particularity: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. particularity: FreeDictionary.org
  20. particularity: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. particularity: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. particularity: Legal dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable)
noun:  A particular thing.
noun:  A distinctive characteristic or quality; a peculiarity.
noun:  (obsolete) A particular case or matter.
noun:  (uncountable)
noun:  The condition of being particular rather than general or universal; specificity.
noun:  (Christianity, theology) The doctrine of the incarnation of God as Jesus occurring at a particular place and time.
noun:  (Christianity, Judaism, theology, obsolete) Synonym of particularism (“the principle that only certain people are chosen by God for salvation”)
noun:  Attention to detail; fastidiousness.
noun:  (obsolete)
noun:  The condition of being special; peculiarity, specialness.
noun:  The condition of being special in an unexpected way; oddness, strangeness; (countable) an instance of this.
noun:  The paying of particular close attention to someone; (countable) an instance of this.

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