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/tˌɛknɪkˈælɪti/ Listen

noun

Technicality n. (pl. technicalities)

The quality or state of being technical; technicalness.

That which is technical, or peculiar to any trade, profession, sect, or the like. "The technicalities of the sect."

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Etymology of 'Technicality'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Technicality" Quotes from Famous Books

... man a labour of love to place in a clear and undistorted view the real merits of this case, which the carelessness and blunders of Peter's former solicitors had converted into a huge chaotic mass of unintelligible technicality; and such was his skill and industry, that he was able, after the severe toil of two or three days, to present to the consideration of the young counsel the principal facts of the case, in a light equally simple and comprehensible. With the assistance ...

— Redgauntlet • Sir Walter Scott

... I tell you. Nothing more. The words echoed in Gregory's mind. Slade did not understand. Mascola was to the revenue man only one of many. A man to be arrested and tried. Perhaps acquitted on a mere technicality of law or a perjured alibi. Slade did not know the Italian. Had Dickie Lang not said that Mascola laughed at the courts? Gregory's jaw set tighter as he descended the trail. To-night, orders or no orders, he would bring Mascola to justice by ...

— El Diablo • Brayton Norton

... on the kindergarten have purposely been divested of a certain amount of technicality and detail, in the hope that they will thus reach not only kindergarten students, but the many mothers and teachers who really long to know what Froebel's system of education is and what it aims to do. They ...

— Froebel's Gifts • Kate Douglas Wiggin

... both literally and symbolically, before his "Great Mystery." When he fails in obedience either to natural law (which is supreme law), or to the simple code of his brother man, he will not excuse himself upon a technicality or lie to save his miserable body. He comes to trial and punishment, even to death, if need be, unattended, and as cheerfully as to a council ...

— The Indian Today - The Past and Future of the First American • Charles A. Eastman

... loans without interest, in ill-health, sickness, or hard times. To Walter Jerrold, in the event of his marrying Helen Stillinghast, his warehouse, then occupied by Stillinghast & Co., and whatever merchandise it contained. It was all put into legal form by the attorney—no technicality was omitted that might endanger the prompt execution of his wishes—not a letter or dot left out. ...

— May Brooke • Anna H. Dorsey

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