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say it: tek-ni-KAL-i-tee
technicality is a noun meaning "the state of being technical as in the use of technical terms or methods". It carries 2 recorded senses.
the state of being technical as in the use of technical terms or methods
“the judicial system suffered from too much technicality and formality”
“It is a tribute to the tribunals that the technicality at the heart of the appellate process in these tribunals can and does coexist with the relative informality in atmosphere and with procedural flexibility.”
a specific detail in a set of rules or terms belonging to a particular field
“the resolution died on a technicality”
“the defendant was acquitted on a legal technicality”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for technicality come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.