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Particular vs Synchroneity - What's the difference?

particular | synchroneity |

As nouns the difference between particular and synchroneity

is that particular is a small individual part of something larger; a detail, a point while synchroneity is the state or characteristic of being synchronous or synchronized.

As an adjective particular

is pertaining only to a part of something; partial.

particular

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Alternative forms

* perticular (obsolete)

Adjective

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  • (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

    Related terms

    * particulars (certain individuals - not used in singular)

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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
  • *

    • Related terms

    * universal * for one's particular

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    synchroneity

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being synchronous or synchronized.
  • * 1979 , Jocelyn Paine, " The partnership of artist and audience," Anchorage Daily News , 13 April, p. D1 (retrieved 24 Aug. 2010):
    • Artist and audience are bound together in a three-legged race, sometimes reluctant partners, sometimes joyful in synchroneity .
  • * 2004 , Xianfeng Wang et al.'', " Wet periods in northeastern Brazil over the past 210?kyr linked to distant climate anomalies," ''Nature , vol. 432, 9 Dec. (retrieved 24 Aug. 2010):
    • This widespread synchroneity of climate anomalies suggests a relatively rapid global reorganization of the ocean–atmosphere system.
  • (countable) A particular instance of objects, events, scientific data, etc. being in this state.
  • * 1985 , Richard J. Chorley et al.'', ''Geomorphology , ISBN 9780416325904, p. 539:
    • Variously generated temperature curves for different localities do not always exhibit clear synchroneities .

    Synonyms

    * synchronicity, synchronization