particularity

Example Sentences

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This was tender and not sweet because it was anchored in a particularity the audience needed to hear.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

The defined religious and social world, rooted in a cultural specificity, was all the more universal for its vivid particularity.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 15, 2025

The particularity of quantum physics is that if two particles are close enough to each other to interact, they can stay connected even when separated.

From Science Daily • Oct. 12, 2023

You see, one strange particularity of Santos’s Il Bacco habit is his penchant for racking up bills that total exactly $199.99.

From Slate • Jan. 13, 2023

Experimenters have to insist on the particularity of experience, but they also have to claim that general conclusions can be drawn from specific examples.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton