English Dictionary

circumstantiality

名詞

不可算名詞 可算名詞

(uncountable) Extreme attention to minute or irrelevant detail. / (countable) A minor detail or circumstantial matter.

日本語の意味

（不可算名詞）細部または些細な点に極端にこだわる状態、または冗長なほどの詳細を述べる性質。 / （可算名詞）些細な事実・事情、付随的な・周辺的な事柄。

The witness's circumstantiality frustrated the jury, as he dwelled on irrelevant minutiae instead of the main events.

その証人の些細な点への過度なこだわりが陪審を苛立たせ、彼は本筋ではなく取るに足らない細部に固執していた。

意味（1）

(uncountable) Extreme attention to minute or irrelevant detail.

Plushkin's list was distinguished by a conciseness of exposition which had led to certain of the items being represented merely by Christian name, patronymic, and a couple of dots; and Sobakevitch's list was remarkable for its amplitude and circumstantiality, in that not a single peasant had such of his peculiar characteristics omitted as that the deceased had been excellent at joinery, or sober and ready to pay attention to his work.

意味（2）

(countable) A minor detail or circumstantial matter.

There was much discussion at the time, in some of the public journals, upon the possibility of reconciling these incidents with other circumstantialities of the case, supposing that only one man had been concerned in the affair. That there was only one man concerned, seems to be certain.

circumstantialities （ plural ）