particularities

Noun

particularity (countable and uncountable, plural particularities)

1. A particular thing.
   • In this particularity vvhereof vve novv ſpeake, ſee hovv his Mercy and Truth are met together, and doe moſt lovingly embrace each other.1620 March 8 (date delivered; Gregorian calendar), Robert Saunderson [i.e., Robert Sanderson], “The Second Sermon. At Grantham Linc[olnshire] 27. Febr. 1620.”, in Twelve Sermons, […], [new] edition...

   Synonyms:

   particular

2. A distinctive characteristic or quality; a peculiarity.
   • Donny’s obsession for trains is just a harmless particularity of his.

   Synonyms:

   differentia, discrimen

3. (obsolete) A particular case or matter.
   • Novv let the generall Trumpet blovv his blaſt, / Particularities, and pettie ſounds / To ceaſe.1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
4. The condition of being particular rather than general or universal; specificity.
   • But true Religion sprung from God above / Is like her fountain full of charity, / […] / [F]ree, large, even infinite, / Not wedg'd in strait particularity, / But grasping all in her vast active spright, / Bright lamp of God! that men would joy in thy pure light!1647, Henry More, “[Philosophical Poems.] Psychathanasia or The Second Part of the Song of the Soul, Treating of the Immortality of Souls, Especially Mans Soul.”, in Alexander B[alloch] Grosart...

   Synonyms:

   particularness, individuality, peculiarity, propriety, singularity, specialty, specificity, specificness

   Antonyms:

   catholicity, generality, genericity, genericness, universality

   1. The doctrine of the incarnation of God as Jesus occurring at a particular place and time.
   2. (Judaism, obsolete) Synonym of particularism (“the principle that only certain people are chosen by God for salvation”).

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