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Distinguish vs Particularize - What's the difference?

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Distinguish is a related term of particularize.


As verbs the difference between distinguish and particularize

is that distinguish is to see someone or something as different from others while particularize is to make particular, as opposed to general; to restrict to a specific or individual case, class etc; to single out.

distinguish

English

Verb

  • To see someone or something as different from others.
  • * {{quote-book, author=De Lacy O'Leary, title=, year=1922
    • , passage=It had begun to take a leading place even in the days of the Ptolemies, and in scientific, as distinguished from purely literary work, it had assumed a position of primary importance early in the Christian era.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
    • , author=(Jeremy Bernstein) , title=A Palette of Particles , volume=100, issue=2, page=146 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=The physics of elementary particles in the 20th century was distinguished by the observation of particles whose existence had been predicted by theorists sometimes decades earlier.}}
  • To see someone or something clearly or distinctly.
  • To make oneself noticeably different or better from others through accomplishments.
  • * 1784 : William Jones, The Description and Use of a New Portable Orrery, &c. , PREFACE
    • THE favourable reception the Orrery has met with from Per?ons of the fir?t di?tinction, and from Gentlemen and Ladies in general, has induced me to add to it ?everal new improvements in order to give it a degree of Perfection; and di?tingui?h it from others; which by Piracy, or Imitation, may be introduced to the Public.
  • (obsolete) To make to differ.
  • * Bible, 1 Cor. iv. 7 (Douay version)
    • Who distinguisheth thee?

    Usage notes

    In sense “see a difference”, more casual than differentiate or the formal discriminate; more casual is “tell the difference”.

    Synonyms

    (see a difference) differentiate, discriminate

    Derived terms

    * distinguished * distinguishable * distinguishness

    Related terms

    * distinct * distinction

    Antonyms

    * (to see someone or something as different from others) confuse

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    particularize

    English

    Alternative forms

    * particularise

    Verb

    (particulariz)
  • To make particular, as opposed to general; to restrict to a specific or individual case, class etc.; to single out.
  • (intransitive) To be specific about (individual instances); to go into detail (about), to specify.
  • *, I.iii.2.1:
  • *:I have disposed of them as I could, and will descend to particularize them according to their species.
  • * Atterbury
    • He not only boasts of his parentage as an Israelite, but particularizes his descent from Benjamin.
  • *1992 , Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety , Harper Perennial 2007, p. 110:
  • *:Now it is his daily work to particularize , item by item, the iniquities of the system, and the petty manifestations of the tyranny here in Arras.
  • To differentiate, make distinct from others.