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TECHNICALITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does technicality mean?
• TECHNICALITY (noun)
The noun TECHNICALITY has 2 senses:
1. the state of being technical as in the use of technical terms or methods
2. a specific detail in a set of rules or terms belonging to a particular field
Familiarity information: TECHNICALITY used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The state of being technical as in the use of technical terms or methods
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Context example:
It is a tribute to the tribunals that the technicality at the heart of the appellate process in these tribunals can and does coexist with the relative informality in atmosphere and with procedural flexibility.
Hypernyms ("technicality" is a kind of...):
state (the way something is with respect to its main attributes)
Derivation:
technical (characterizing or showing skill in or specialized knowledge of applied arts and sciences)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A specific detail in a set of rules or terms belonging to a particular field
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Context example:
the defendant was acquitted on a legal technicality
Hypernyms ("technicality" is a kind of...):
detail; item; point (an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole)
Derivation:
technical (according to strict interpretation of the law or set of rules)
Context examples
I must say I don’t understand your technicalities, she said, but I do your conclusion, and I don’t like it.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
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