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n. - An individualized description of a specific instance.

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Usage examples (4)
  • The particularisation, therefore, which is as yet retained in the sphere of the Universal, when it actually manifests itself outwardly as such, constitutes the Other as...
  • We suffer at present, I think, from the too great particularisation of our efforts.
  • Such a particularisation of his statement would have at once reduced it to absurdity.
  • Dante, without question on his part, the first condition of the poetic way of seeing and presenting things is particularisation.
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