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circumstantiality|ˌsɜːkəmstænʃɪˈælɪtɪ|
[f. prec. + -ity.]
Circumstantial quality, attention to details, particularity.
1731–6Bailey, Circumstantiality, the quality of that which is circumstantial. 1784Steevens in Boswell Johnson lxxx, Could..the many acts of humanity he performed..be displayed with equal circumstantiality. 1816Scott Old Mort. i, So much had his narratives the circumstantiality of an eye-witness. 1878Morley Diderot i. 88.
b. concr. A circumstantial matter, a detail.
1822De Quincey Confess. (1862) 88 Such trivial circumstantialities I notice. 1854― Wks. (1862) IV. 101 The possibility of reconciling these incidents with other circumstantialities of the case.
†2. ‘The appendage of circumstances, the state of anything as modified by circumstances.’ (The only sense in Johnson.) |