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Definition: Technicality |
TechnicalityNoun1. A detail that is considered insignificant. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "technicality" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1991. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Satire | TECHNICALITY, n. In an English court a man named Home was tried for slander in having accused his neighbor of murder. His exact words were: "Sir Thomas Holt hath taken a cleaver and stricken his cook upon the head, so that one side of the head fell upon one shoulder and the other side upon the other shoulder." The defendant was acquitted by instruction of the court, the learned judges holding that the words did not charge murder, for they did not affirm the death of the cook, that being only an inference. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: TechnicalitySynonyms: trifle (n), triviality (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Neologism | Jargon, technical terms, technicality, lingo, slang, cant, argot; St. Gile's Greek, thieves' Latin, peddler's French, flash tongue, Billingsgate, Wall Street slang. |
Precept | Rule, canon, law, code, corpus juris, lex scripta, act, statute, rubric, stage direction, regulation; form, formula, formulary; technicality; canon law; norm. |
Skill | Accomplishment, acquirement, attainment; art, science; technicality, technology; practical knowledge, technical knowledge. |
Speciality | Noun: {opp. } speciality, specialite; individuality, individuity; particularity, peculiarity; idiocrasy; (tendency); personality, characteristic, mannerism, idiosyncrasy; specificness; Adjective: singularity; (unconformity); reading, version, lection; state; trait; distinctive feature; technicality; differentia. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Technicality |
| English words defined with "technicality": Technicalities, Technicalness, Technism. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "technicality": Funny. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Clever | I do benefits for all religions -- I'd hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality. (references; author: Bob Hope) | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Tunisia | ALTHOUGH PIZZA HUT (OPERATED IN TUNISIA BY A SAUDI ARABIAN FRANCHISE-HOLDER), WAS ALLOWED TO OPERATE IN TUNISIA FOR THREE YEARS, IT WAS TARGETED IN A GOVERNMENT CAMPAIGN THAT EVENTUALLY LED TO ITS CLOSURE IN 1999 ON A LEGAL TECHNICALITY. (references) |
Human Rights | Cameroon | In November the military trial of the eight officers was referred to a high court in Yaounde after the case was dismissed from the court of first instance on a technicality. (references) |
Political Rights | Dominican Republic | However, the Supreme Court, ruling on a challenge to the legislation brought by President Mejia, declared the legislation unconstitutional on a technicality, which essentially forced the Congress to start the process over. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Technicality" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Technicality" is used about 90 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 90 | 34,744 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
technicality | 10 |
legal technicality | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "technicality"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | terminologji (glossology, nomenclature, technology, terminology), hollësi teknike, anë teknike. (various references) | |
Arabic | نقطة فنية, تقنية (mechanics, mechanism, mechanization, technique), تقني (technical), الصفة التقنية, شىء تقني. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | техническа страна на нещо. (various references) | |
Chinese | "业性质 (Technicalities). (various references) | |
Czech | odborný výraz, formální detail. (various references) | |
French | technicité. (various references) | |
German | technische einzelheit (technicalty), formalität (formality). (various references) | |
Greek | τεχνικόσ όροσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מו ח טכ י, קו"" טכ ית. (various references) | |
Hungarian | szakszerűség (workmanship), szakmai vonatkozás, szakmai sajátosság, szakmai részlet, szakkifejezés (technical term, term), műszó (technical term), műkifejezés (technical term), alakiság (formality, modality). (various references) | |
Italian | tecnicit . (various references) | |
Manx | chaghnid. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | echnicalitytay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | termo técnico, tecnologia (know how, technics, technology), tecnicismo, expressão técnica. (various references) | |
Romanian | tehnicitate (technicalness), amãnunt (circumstance, detail, particular, retail). (various references) | |
Russian | техническая сторона дела. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | tehnikalija, stručnost (professionalism), propis (observance, ordinance, prescript, regulation, scripture), formalnost (circumstance, formality). (various references) | |
Spanish | tecnicismo, tecnicidad, tecnicalidad, técnico (expert, repairman, technical, technician), detalle (detail, gesture, item, particular, token), cosa técnica, carácter técnico. (various references) | |
Swedish | teknisk term, teknisk sida, teknikalitet, formalitet (form, formality, matter of form), fackuttryck (technical term). (various references) | |
Thai | ลักษ"ะทางเทคนิค. (various references) | |
Turkish | teknik terimlerin kullanılması, teknik ayrıntı, teknik özellik. (various references) | |
Ukranian | формальність (formality, punctilio), технічна сторона справи. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tính chất chuyên môn (technicalness), chi tiết kỹ thuật, chi tiết chuyên môn thuật ngữ chuyên môn sự phân biệt về chuyên môn tính chất kỹ thuật. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Technicality" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: technicallity. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "technicality" (pronounced te'knuka"lutē) |
| 7 | -u k a" l u t ē | criticality, theatricality. |
| 6 | -k a" l u t ē | cyclicality, locality, musicality, practicality. |
| 5 | -a" l u t ē | abnormality, actuality, banality, bestiality, bisexuality, brutality, causality, centrality, collegiality, commonality, conditionality, confidentiality, congeniality, constitutionality, criminality, dimensionality, duality, eventuality, extraterritoriality, fatality, finality, formality, frugality, functionality, generality, geniality, heterosexuality, homosexuality, hospitality, illegality, immorality, immortality, impartiality, impersonality, individuality, informality, instrumentality, irrationality, legality, lethality, liberality, materiality, mentality, modality, morality, mortality, municipality, mutuality, nationality, neutrality, normality, originality, partiality, personality, plurality, principality, proportionality, punctuality, rationality, reality, sensuality, sentimentality, sexuality, speciality, spirituality, tonality, totality, triviality, universality, unreality, venality, vitality. |
| 4 | -l u t ē | ability, acceptability, accessibility, accountability, adaptability, admissibility, advisability, affordability, agility, amiability, applicability, availability, believability, capability, civility, comparability, compatibility, comprehensibility, convertibility, credibility, credulity, culpability, debility, deductibility, deniability, dependability, desirability, disability, docility, ductility, durability, electability, eligibility, enforceability, equality, facility, fallibility, feasibility, fertility, fidelity, flammability, flexibility, fragility, frivolity, futility, gentility, gullibility, hostility, humility, immobility, impossibility, inability, inaccessibility, incivility, incompatibility, incredulity, indestructibility, inequality, inevitability, infallibility, infertility, infidelity, inflexibility, instability, invincibility, invisibility, invulnerability, irresponsibility, irritability, legibility, liability, malleability, maneuverability, marketability, miscibility, mobility, motility, nobility, nonutility, palatability, permeability, plausibility, polity, portability, possibility, predictability, probability, profitability, quality, readability, reliability, respectability, responsibility, seasonality, senility, sensibility, stability, sterility, suitability, survivability, susceptibility, sustainability, tranquility, transferability, unavailability, unpredictability, unreliability, utility, variability, versatility, viability, virility, visibility, volatility, vulnerability. |
| 3 | -u t ē | absurdity, acidity, activity, acuity, adversity, affinity, aggressivity, alacrity, alkalinity, ambiguity, amenity, amity, analyticity, animosity, annuity, anonymity, antiquity, anxiety, atrocity, audacity, austerity, authenticity, authority, barbarity, biodiversity, brevity, calamity, capacity, captivity, cavity, celebrity, charity, chastity, clarity, commodity, community, complexity, complicity, conductivity, conformity, congruity, connectivity, continuity, creativity, crotchety, curiosity, deformity, deity, density, depravity, deputy, dexterity, dignity, discontinuity, disparity, dissimilarity, disunity, diversity, divinity, domesticity, duplicity, eccentricity, elasticity, electricity, enmity, enormity, entity, equanimity, equity, eternity, ethnicity, exclusivity, expressivity, extremity, falsity, familiarity, Felicity, femininity, ferocity, festivity, fluidity, fraternity, generosity, gratuity, gravity, heredity, heterogeneity, hilarity, homogeneity, humanity, humidity, hyperactivity, hypersensitivity, identity, illiquidity, immaturity, immunity, impropriety, impunity, impurity, inactivity, incapacity, incongruity, indemnity, indignity, inequity, inferiority, infinity, infirmity, ingenuity, inhumanity, insanity, insecurity, insensitivity, insularity, integrity, intensity, irregularity, laity, laxity, levity, liquidity, lividity, longevity, majority, masculinity, maternity, maturity, mediocrity, mendacity, minority, modernity, monstrosity, morbidity, multiplicity, nativity, necessity, negativity, Nonconformity, nonentity, notoriety, nudity, obesity, objectivity, obscenity, obscurity, oddity, opacity, opportunity, overcapacity, oversensitivity, parity, particularity, passivity, paternity, paucity, peculiarity, perpetuity, perplexity, perversity, piety, polarity, pomposity, popularity, posterity, priority, probity, proclivity, productivity, profanity, progressivity, promiscuity, propensity, propriety, prosperity, proximity, publicity, purity, quantity, radioactivity, rapidity, rarity, reactivity, receptivity, reciprocity, reflexivity, regularity, relativity, religiosity, retroactivity, rickety, rigidity, salinity, sanctity, sanity, scarcity, security, selectivity, seniority, sensitivity, serendipity, serenity, severity, similarity, simplicity, sincerity, sobriety, society, solemnity, solidarity, solidity, sorority, specificity, spontaneity, stupidity, subjectivity, superconductivity, superfluidity, superiority, supermajority, surety, temerity, tenacity, timidity, toxicity, Trinity, turbidity, ubiquity, unanimity, unfamiliarity, uniformity, unity, university, unpopularity, uppity, validity, vanity, variety, varsity, velocity, velvety, veracity, Verity, vicinity, virginity, virtuosity, viscosity, voracity, vulgarity. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-h-i-i-l-n-t-t-y" | |
-2 letters: ethicality. | |
-3 letters: ethnicity, technical, thylacine. | |
-4 letters: acetylic, anticity, atechnic, athletic, calycine, canticle, catechin, chancily, chattily, cyanitic, enclitic, ethician, ethnical, hectical, hecticly, helicity, latinity, lecithin, tenacity, tetchily, thetical. | |
-5 letters: aclinic, actinic, anility, anticly, calcine, calcite, caliche, cathect, cattily, chalice, chancel, chantey, chattel, chicane, chitlin, ciliate, cyanite, cynical, ectatic, etchant, ethical, ethinyl, ethylic, hyaenic, hyaline, hyalite, ichnite, intitle, itchily, latchet, latency, lattice, lecythi, nattily, nictate, nitchie, tacitly, tactile, techily, technic, tenthly, tetanic, titanic. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-h-i-i-l-n-t-t-y" | |
+5 letters: architectonically. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 65 63 68 6E 69 63 61 6C 69 74 79 |
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- . -.-. .... -. .. -.-. .- .-.. .. - -.--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100101 01100011 01101000 01101110 01101001 01100011 01100001 01101100 01101001 01110100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T e c h n i c a l i t y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0065 0063 0068 006E 0069 0063 0061 006C 0069 0074 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)547169748075696778758691 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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