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technicality

noun
/ˌtɛknɪˈkælɪti/

Etymology

From technical + -ity.

  1. derived from τεχνικός
  2. suffixed as technicality — “technical + ity”

Definitions

  1. The quality or state of being technical.

    • At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy ; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
    • Ha and Hyland suggest that technicality is not binary and it is not always possible to say that a word is technical or not.

  2. That which is technical, or peculiar to any trade, profession, sect, or the like.

    • the technicalities of the sect
    • [T]he names of places and horses and slangy technicalities of the turf, had interlarded the poor girl's brain-sick babble; […]

  3. A minor detail, rule, law, etc., seemingly insignificant to a non-specialist but which…

    A minor detail, rule, law, etc., seemingly insignificant to a non-specialist but which has significant consequences in larger matters.

    • legal technicality

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at technicality. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at technicality. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at technicality

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA