particularity

noun10

1. •
   The condition of being particular rather than general or universal; specificity.
2. •
   A distinctive characteristic or quality; a peculiarity.

   • Donny’s obsession for trains is just a harmless particularity of his.
3. •
   A particular thing.

   • In this particularity vvhereof vve novv speake, see hovv his Mercy and Truth are met together, and doe most lovingly embrace each other. — 1620
4. •
   Attention to detail; fastidiousness.

   • There is no part of the Gospel vvrit vvith so copious a Particularity, as the History of his [Jesus's] Sufferings and Death; as there vvas indeed no part of the Gospel so important as this is. — 1699
5. •
   The doctrine of the incarnation of God as Jesus occurring at a particular place and time.
6. •
   (no longer used) The condition of being special in an unexpected way; oddness, strangeness; (countable) an instance of this.

   • No man ought to be tolerated in a habitual humour, whim, or particularity of behaviour, by any who do not wait upon him for bread. — 1712
7. •
   (no longer used) A particular case or matter.

   • Novv let the generall Trumpet blovv his blast, / Particularities, and pettie sounds / To cease. — 1591
8. •
   (no longer used) The condition of being special; peculiarity, specialness.

   • To pass my evenings in so sweet a conversation, and have the esteem of a woman of your merit, has in it a particularity of happiness no more to be expressed than returned. — 1711
9. •
   (no longer used) The paying of particular close attention to someone; (countable) an instance of this.
10. •
    (Judaism, no longer used) Synonym of particularism (“the principle that only certain people are chosen by God for salvation”).