the quality of being circumstantial; minuteness; fullness of detail
2.
a circumstance; a detail
3. Psychiatry
a pattern of speech that seems to wander because of excessive detail but eventually reaches its goal idea
Word origin
[1725–35; circumstantial + -ity]This word is first recorded in the period 1725–35. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: amorphous, copyright, hairline, postmortem, viburnum-ity is a suffix used to form abstract nouns expressing state or condition. Other wordsthat use the affix -ity include: Latinity, civility, jollity