Associations to the word «Particularism»

Wiktionary

PARTICULARISM, noun. (theology) The principle that only certain people are chosen by God for salvation.
PARTICULARISM, noun. An exclusive focus on a particular group, area, sect etc.
PARTICULARISM, noun. (politics) The principle that individual states, races of a federation etc. may act independently of a central authority.

Dictionary definition

PARTICULARISM, noun. A focus on something particular.

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King