| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
| Class I. Words Expressing Abstract Relations |
| Section IV. Order |
| 4. Distributive Order |
| 79. Speciality. |
| NOUN: | SPECIALITY, spécialité [F.]; individuality, individuity [obs.]; particularity, peculiarity; je ne sais quoi [F.], nescio quid [L.]; idiocrasy (tendency) [See Tendency]; personality, characteristic, mannerism, idiosyncrasy, physiognomic [rare], diagnostic; specificness &c. adj.; singularity (unconformity) [See Unconformity]; reading, version, lection; state; trait; distinctive feature; technicality; differentia. PARTICULARS, details, items, counts; minutiæ. I, self, I myself; myself, himself, herself, itself. |
| VERB: | SPECIFY, particularize, individualize, realize, specialize, designate, determine; denote, indicate, point out, select, differentiate, specificize [rare], come to the point. ITEMIZE, detail, descend to particulars, enter into detail. |
| ADJECTIVE: | SPECIAL, particular, individual, specific, proper, personal, original, private, respective, definite, determinate, minute, especial, certain, esoteric, endemic, partial, party, peculiar, marked, intimate, appropriate, several, characteristic, diagnostic, exclusive, restricted; singular (exceptional) [See Unconformity]; idiomatic; typical, representative. this, that; yon, yonder. |
| ADVERB: | SPECIALLY &c. adj.; in particular, in propriâ personâ [L.]; ad hominem [L.]; for my part. EACH, apiece, one by one; severally, respectively, each to each; seriatim [NL.], in detail, bit by bit; pro hac vice [L.], pro re natâ [L.]. NAMELY, that is to say, videlicet [L.], viz.; to wit. |
| QUOTATION: | Le style est l’homme même. |
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