Specialty vs Peculiarity - What's the difference?
specialty | peculiarity |
That in which one specializes; a chosen expertise or talent.
* Charles Kingsley:
(obsolete) particularity
* Shakespeare:
A particular or peculiar case.
An attribute or quality peculiar to a species.
(legal) A contract or obligation under seal; a contract by deed; a writing, under seal, given as security for a debt particularly specified.
* Shakespeare
* Joseph Chitty
The quality or state of being peculiar; individuality; singularity.
That which is peculiar; a special and distinctive characteristic or habit; particularity.
* 1853 , , Villette , Chapter 4:
Exclusive possession or right.
As nouns the difference between specialty and peculiarity
is that specialty is that in which one specializes; a chosen expertise or talent while peculiarity is the quality or state of being peculiar; individuality; singularity.specialty
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Alternative forms
* specialityNoun
(specialties)- They cook well overall, but their true specialty is pasta.
- Men of boundless knowledge, like Humbold, must have had once their specialty , their pet subject.
- Specialty of rule hath been neglected.
- (Bouvier)
- Let specialties be therefore drawn between us.
peculiarity
English
Noun
(peculiarities)- I had often heard of Miss Marchmont, and of her peculiarities (she had the character of being very eccentric), but till now had never seen her.