technicality
/ˌtɛknɪˈkælɪti/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.83 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
That which is technical, or peculiar to any trade, profession, sect, or the like.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A minor detail, rule, law, etc., seemingly insignificant to a non-specialist but which has significant consequences in larger matters.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy ; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum."
- "Ha and Hyland suggest that technicality is not binary and it is not always possible to say that a word is technical or not."
- "the technicalities of the sect"
- "[T]he names of places and horses and slangy technicalities of the turf, had interlarded the poor girl's brain-sick babble; […]"
- "These are some of the "Reversible Errors" on which a new trial can be had and are often spoken of by misinformed business men as "technicalities," as when they say a certain gangster "got off on a technicality" or "got a new trial on a technicality.""
- "Mommsen believed that Claudius had been an augur who was ordered by a chief pontiff Metellus to inaugurate Sulpicius son of Servius as a priest, that Claudius declined on grounds of a religious technicality, that Claudius was subsequently fined by the chief pontiff, and that Claudius appealed the fine."
Etymology
Etymology tree English technical Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English technicality From technical + -ity.