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technicality|tɛknɪˈkælɪtɪ|
[f. prec. + -ity.]
1. Technical quality or character; the use of technical terms or methods.
1828–32Webster, Technicalness, Technicality, the quality or state of being technical or peculiar to the arts. Forster. 1857Toulmin Smith Parish 266 The case is a very simple one, when divested of technicality. 1863Cowden Clarke Shaks. Char. iii. 88 He dilates upon the weapons..with an accurate and professor-like technicality.
2. A technical point, detail, term, or expression; something peculiar or specially belonging to the art or subject referred to. Usually in pl.
1814Scott Wav. lii, A sort of martinet attention to the minutiæ and technicalities of discipline. 1859Gullick & Timbs Paint. 190 Various other technicalities and artistic appliances may also be explained. 1874L. Stephen Hours in Library (1892) I. vii. 261 To translate the technicalities of Kant into plain English. 1885S. Cox Expositions I. xxxii. 372 This phrase, ‘the Saviour of the world’, has come to be little more than a technicality, which we use without much thought or emotion. |