Sean M. Carroll

Science isn't just about solving this or that puzzle. It's about understanding how the world works: the whole world from the vastness of the cosmos to the particularity of an individual human life. It's worth thinking about how all the different ways we have to talk about the world manage to fit together.

American Scientist

Joshua Cohen

When knowledge no longer becomes the commodity of the few, but in a sense becomes equalized by everyone having access, you lose some aspect of Jewish particularity, or at least a Jewish particularity that is fundamental to the construct of Jews as people of the book, which was always interesting.

American Writer

Jacques Lacan

But this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a general type from phenomena whose particularity in our work would remain the essential thing for you, and whose original arrangement could be broken up only artificially.

French Psychologist

Lionel Trilling

The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.

American Critic

Hari Kunzru

But it's the particularity of a place, the physical experience of being in a place, that makes it onto the page. That's why I don't just do library research. I very rarely write about somewhere I haven't been.

British Novelist

Ross Douthat

It is not white nationalism to recognize limiting principles on liberal universalism, and a justifiable role for particularity - ethnic, cultural, religious - in many political arrangements.

American Author

Use 'particularity' to describe what sets someone or something apart from others.

Character Uniqueness

'Particularity' can express negative qualities as well as positive ones.

Not Always Positive

'Particularity' signifies a high level of detail, often in instructions or descriptions.

Expect Detail

To stress precision, use 'particularity' when details need to be exact and clear.

Precision Matters

Using 'particularity' can imply something is taken very seriously or with importance.

Serious Implication

Emphasize a specific detail or incident by using 'particularity' to draw attention.

Focus on Detail

In history, 'particularity' may refer to an event or fact crucial to understanding a wider context.

Historical Significance

Journalists often provide 'particularities' to give readers a full understanding of the news story.