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[ tek-ni-kal-i-tee ] / ˌtɛk nɪˈkæl ɪ ti / SEE SYNONYMS FOR technicality ON THESAURUS.COM
noun, plural tech·ni·cal·i·ties for 2, 3. technical character. the use of technical methods or terms. something that is technical; a technical point, detail, or expression. Origin of technicalityFirst recorded in 1805–15; technical + -ity OTHER WORDS FROM technicalityhy·per·tech·ni·cal·i·ty, nouno·ver·tech·ni·cal·i·ty, noun, plural o·ver·tech·ni·cal·i·ties.Words nearby technicalitytechnical area, technical college, technical drawing, technical foul, technical institute, technicality, technical knockout, technically, technical sergeant, technician, Technicolor Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for technicalityIt will not be your legal responsibility, but you're simply winning on a technicality. Whatever You Do Someone Will Die. A Short Story About Impossible Choices in Iraq|Nathan Bradley Bethea|August 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST He was arrested, tried and, thanks to a technicality, acquitted. Nigeria’s Larger-Than-Life Nobel Laureate Chronicles a Fascinating Life|Chimamanda Adichie|August 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST The case was tossed out the following year on a technicality. ESPN: The Worldwide Leader in Pricks|Marlow Stern|July 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST The effect would be to knock down California's gay-marriage ban on a technicality, without affecting the rest of the country. Will the Supreme Court Dodge a Big Marriage Equality Decision?|David Frum|March 27, 2013|DAILY BEAST
I said “Britcom” earlier; Father Ted is only that on a technicality. Father Ted: Comedy as Liberation|Tom Doran|March 8, 2013|DAILY BEAST Technicality is as little consonant with the one as with the other. History of the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, President of The United States|Edmund G. Ross Even if the Cubs had claimed it on a technicality, even if we had really won the pennant once, that game had to be played now. Pitching in a Pinch|Christy Mathewson I still think Jimmie Time and Boogles were beating the law—on a technicality. Somewhere in Red Gap|Harry Leon Wilson This I cal186l the Apology of technicality inspired by tyranny. Charles Sumner; his complete works, volume 5 (of 20)|Charles Sumner She slid into the silence with a technicality, asking if John still took his old inordinate amount of sugar. Tales and Fantasies|Robert Louis Stevenson
British Dictionary definitions for technicality
noun plural -tiesa petty formal point arising from a strict interpretation of rules, etcthe case was dismissed on a technicality the state or quality of being technical technical methods and vocabulary Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to technicalityformality, escape clause, nothing to speak of, nothing to write home about |