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Elucidate vs Particularize - What's the difference?

elucidate | particularize |

As verbs the difference between elucidate and particularize

is that elucidate is to make clear; to clarify; to shed light upon while particularize is to make particular, as opposed to general; to restrict to a specific or individual case, class etc; to single out.

elucidate

English

Verb

(elucidat)
  • To make clear; to clarify; to shed light upon.
  • * 1817 , , Northanger Abbey , ch. 13:
    • The business, however, though not perfectly elucidated by this speech, soon ceased to be a puzzle.
  • * 1960 , " Medicine: Unmasking the Brain," Time , 4 April:
    • [P]hysicians at the annual meeting of the American Academy of General Practice were fascinated by a 3-ft. model showing the brain's components in 20 layers of translucent plastic, and wired for colored lights to elucidate some of its workings.
  • * 2004 , David Bernstein, “ Philosophy Hitches a Ride With ‘The Sopranos’,” New York Times , 13 April (retrieved 19 Aug. 2009):
    • The new Sopranos volume has 17 essays that examine the television show and elucidate concepts from classical philosophers, including Aristotle, Machiavelli, Nietzsche, Sun Tzu and Plato.

    Synonyms

    * explicate, illuminate

    Derived terms

    * elucidation * elucidative * elucidator * elucidatory

    Related terms

    * lucid * lucidity

    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.