The Collaborative International Dictionary
Circumstantiality \Cir`cum*stan`ti*al"i*ty\, n.
The state, characteristic, or quality of being
circumstantial; particularity or minuteness of detail. ``I
will endeavor to describe with sufficient
circumstantiality.''
--De Quincey.
Wiktionary
n. 1 minute detail. 2 An irrelevant detail that disturbs one's thought process.
Usage examples of "circumstantiality".
Bekkul was to be the victim, and Achang, with drunken circumstantiality, set forth his plan of operations.
Their rapport at moments attains for Eccles a pitch of pleasure, a harmless ecstasy, that makes the world with its vicious circumstantiality seem remote and spherical and green.
He also brought back with him, his biographers assert, an infant daughter, the offspring of an amour, as some of them with great circumstantiality inform us, with a Lisbon lady of noble birth, whose name, however, as well as that of the street she lived in, they omit to mention.
I'd tinctured my tale with circumstantialities, I'd done my research, but Gladda momentarily forgot what she'd never have doubted an instant if you'd asked her about it directly.