technicalia
/ˌtɛknɪˈkeɪli.ə/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Technical details, especially ones that are tedious or of little interest to nonspecialists; technicalities.
Example Sentences
- "Copernicus himself made few observations but was steeped both in the technicalia of astronomical geometry and in the humanistic tradition."
- "If you don’t care about the technicalia of Internet mail, the next two paragraphs can be safely skipped."
- "[…] the notes often contain extended, technical arguments. Other readers may also find the notes of considerable interest, but I would suggest that if the annotative technicalia prove tiresome, the argument in the body of the text may remain both intelligible and useful, even if the notes are not consulted."
- "Yet in explaining deficits, the Audit Commission (AC) (2006) sought refuge in a narrow range of technicalia about the processes of budget-setting, on the one hand, and bland homilies about the nature of Boards, on the other."
- "[…]though much of the Latin loan material consists of military or governmental technicalia, there exists, in addition, a considerable stratum which provides insight into the lexical equipment of the more popular levels of society."
- "The technicalia underlying the description – such as the floodlights, the 'fluorescent', the 'spectrem', the prism, the multi-dimensionality, the reference to arteriosclerosis ('arthurious clayroses') – contextualize it within modern techno-culture."
Etymology
By surface analysis, technical + -ia (“a collection of things”). Evidently modelled after other nouns descended from substantivized Latin -ālis adjectives in the neuter plural: marginalia, paraphernalia, generalia, regalia, militaria, etc.