Definition of "particularity" [par•tic•u•lar•i•ty]

• The quality or state of being particular rather than general. (noun)
• Exactitude of detail, especially in description: a travel account written with almost excruciating particularity. (noun)
• Attention to or concern with detail; fastidiousness: a scholar known for her particularity. (noun)
• A specific point or detail; a particular. (noun)
• An individual characteristic; a peculiarity. (noun)

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• "For if we look at that ground more closely, we find there evidence of a fractured and contested public sphere or spheres wherein particularity and difference fissure the very effort to define or construct a public sphere."
• "It is only in Kant's Critique of Judgment that we find a conception of judgment as the ability to deal with particulars in their particularity, that is, without subsuming them under a pre-given universal, but actively searching the universal out of the particular."
• "Since the Fourth Amendment demands warrants specify with "particularity" the objects of the search, such review of broad surveillance "programs" would have no relationship to the conventional warrant process."