Explicit vs Particular - What's the difference?

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Explicit is a related term of particular.

As adjectives the difference between explicit and particular

is that explicit is explicit while particular is (obsolete) pertaining only to a part of something; partial.

As a noun particular is

a small individual part of something larger; a detail, a point.

explicit

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Very specific, clear, or detailed.

I gave explicit instructions for him to stay here, but he followed me, anyway.

(euphemism) Containing material (e.g. language or film footage) that might be deemed offensive or graphic.

The film had several scenes including explicit language and sex.

(obsolete)

Synonyms

* express, manifest, overt * (containing offensive material) raunchy

Antonyms

* implicit, unexplicit, vague * (containing offensive material) circumspect

Derived terms

* explicitation * explicitly * explicitness

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particular

English

Alternative forms

* perticular (obsolete)

Adjective

(-)

(obsolete) Pertaining only to a part of something; partial.

Specific; discrete; concrete.

I couldn't find the particular model you asked for, but I hope this one will do.

We knew it was named after John Smith, but nobody knows which particular John Smith.

* Shakespeare

[Make] each particular hair to stand an end, / Like quills upon the fretful porpentine.

Specialised; characteristic of a specific person or thing.

I don't appreciate your particular brand of cynicism.

* Francis Bacon

wheresoever one plant draweth such a particular juice out of the earth

(obsolete) Known only to an individual person or group; confidential.

* 1623 , William Shakespeare, King Lear , V.1:

or these domesticke and particular broiles, Are not the question heere.

Distinguished in some way; special (often in negative constructions).

My five favorite places are, in no particular order, New York, Chicago, Paris, San Francisco and London.

I didn't have any particular interest in the book.

He brought no particular news.

She was the particular belle of the party.

(comparable) Of a person, concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; precise; fastidious.

He is very particular about his food and if it isn't cooked to perfection he will send it back.

Concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; circumstantial; precise.

a full and particular account of an accident

(legal) Containing a part only; limited.

a particular estate, or one precedent to an estate in remainder

(legal) Holding a particular estate.

a particular tenant

(Blackstone)

(logic) Forming a part of a genus; relatively limited in extension; affirmed or denied of a part of a subject.

a particular proposition, opposed to "universal", e.g. (particular affirmative) "Some men are wise"; (particular negative) "Some men are not wise".

Synonyms

* See also

Antonyms

* general

Derived terms

* antiparticularism * antiparticularist * in particular * particular average * particular Church * particular integral * particularism * particularize * particularly * particularity

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Noun

(en noun)

A small individual part of something larger; a detail, a point.

(obsolete) A person's own individual case.

*, II.16:

*:Since philosophy could never find any way for tranquillity that might be generally good, let every man in his particular seeke for it.

* Whole Duty of Man

temporal blessings, whether such as concern the publicor such as concern our particular

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