PARTICULARITY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The quality of being particular and pertaining to a specific case or instance

Example:

the particularity of human situations

Synonyms:

particularity; specialness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("particularity" is a kind of...):

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "particularity"):

specificity (the quality of being specific rather than general)

specificity (the quality of being specific to a particular organism)

Antonym:

generality (the quality of being general or widespread or having general applicability)

Derivation:

particular (unique or specific to a person or thing or category)

particular (separate and distinct from others of the same group or category)