particularity
/pə(ɹ)ˌtɪkjəˈlɛɹəti/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.27 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
6
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The condition of being particular rather than general or universal; specificity.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The condition of being particular rather than general or universal; specificity.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The condition of being particular rather than general or universal; specificity.
Countable; Obsolete; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "In this particularity vvhereof vve novv ſpeake, ſee hovv his Mercy and Truth are met together, and doe moſt lovingly embrace each other."
- "[I]f they never hear plain truth from men, they see the best of every thing, in every kind, and they see things so grouped and amassed as to infer easily the sum and genius, instead of tedious particularities."
- "Donny’s obsession for trains is just a harmless particularity of his."
- "Novv let the generall Trumpet blovv his blaſt, / Particularities, and pettie ſounds / To ceaſe."
- "[W]e Chriſtians, vnto vvhom it is reuealed in particularity, that all Men came from one Lumpe of Earth; […]"
- "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!"
Etymology
From Middle French particularité (“part of a whole; something particular, particularity”) (modern French particularité), and from its etymon Late Latin particularitas (“fact or quality of being particular; something particular, particularity”), from Latin particulāris (“particular; partial”) + -tās (suffix forming feminine abstract nouns indicating a state of being). Particulāris is derived from particula (“particle, small part”) (from pars (“a part, piece, portion, share”) (probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *perh₃- (“to provide, produce, beget”)) + -cula (diminutive suffix)) + -āris (suffix denoting a relationship, forming adjectives). The English word is analysable as particular + -ity (suffix forming nouns from adjectives, referring to the properties, qualities, or states of what is denoted by the adjectives).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *perh₃-, particularité, particularitas, particulāris
- Suffix: particular
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /pə(ɹ)ˌtɪkjəˈlɛɹəti/
- British English: /pəˌtɪkjʊˈlæɹɪti/