• (n.) The state, characteristic, or quality of being circumstantial; particularity or minuteness of detail.
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A disturbance in the thought process, either voluntary or involuntary, in which one gives an excessive amount of detail (circumstances) that is often tangential, elaborate, and irrelevant, to avoid making a direct statement or answer to a question; observed in schizophrenia and in obsessional disorders. ... Compare: tangentiality. ... Origin: L. Ci...
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(sur″kәm-stan″she-al´ĭ-te) a disturbed pattern of speech or writing characterized by delay in getting to the point because of the interpolation of unnecessary details and irrelevant remarks; seen in persons with schizophrenia and obsessive-compulsive disorders. See also tangentiality.
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slowed thinking incorporating unnecessary trivial details. Eventually the goal of the thought is rea
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Cir`cum·stan`ti·al'i·ty noun The state, characteristic, or quality of being circumstantial; particularity or minuteness of detail. 'I will endeavor to describe with sufficient
circumstantiality .'
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Type: Term Pronunciation: ser′kŭm-stan′shē-al′i-tē Definitions: 1. A disturbance in the thought process, either voluntary or involuntary, in which one gives an excessive amount of detail (circumstances) that is often tangential, elaborate, and irrelevant, to avoid making a direct statement or answer to a question; o...
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circumstantial, circumstantially, circumstantiality 1. Containing or based on facts that allow a court to deduce that somebody is legally guilty without conclusive proof; circumstantial evidence. 2. Relating to, or dependent on circumstances. 3. Of no primary significance; incidental. 4. Complete and particular; full of detail. 5. Speech or thi...
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the quality of being circumstantial; minuteness; fullness of detail. · a circumstance; a detail. · a pattern of speech that seems to wander because of excessive detail but eventuallyreaches its goal idea.
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