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particularity

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++par·tic·u·lar·i·ty /pəˌtɪkjəˈlærəti $ pər-/ noun (plural particularities) formal  1 [uncountable] a quality that makes something different from all others 特性,特别之处 the particularity of her style of writing 她写作风格的特色2. [uncountable]EXACT the quality of being exact and paying attention to details 精确,仔细3. [countable]DETAIL a detail 细节
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particularityOften Emerson found himself so far beyond nature that all concrete particularity vanished.Gilligan recognizes, but does not theorize, the cultural particularity of her work.To begin with, pictures, especially single pictures, speak only in particularities.Part of the offensiveness of the Incarnation has always been its particularity, its actual historical visibility.The occupiers complained by way of judicial review that the warrant lacked particularity.But this actual universe is a universe of particularity and consciously apprehended uniqueness.But the particularity, as Shakespeare formulates it, also creates intimacy.
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particularity
particularity /pəˌtɪkjəˈlærəti, pəˌtɪkjʊˈlærəti $ pər-/ noun (plural particularities) formal
1. [uncountable] a quality that makes something different from all others:
    the particularity of her style of writing
2. [uncountable] the quality of being exact and paying attention to details
3. [countable] a detail


par·ticu·lar·ityBrE /pəˌtɪkjuˈlærəti/ 🔊NAmE /pərˌtɪkjuˈlærəti/ 🔊 noun (
plural
par·ticu·lar·ities
)
(formal)
[uncountable] the quality of being individual or unique 个性;独特性the particularity of each human being每个人的独特性 [uncountable] attention to detail; being exact 考究;准确;精确particularities [plural] the special features or details of sth 特征;特性;细节;详情